{"id":156312,"date":"2021-04-18T00:31:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=156312"},"modified":"2021-04-18T00:31:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T19:01:01","slug":"rijiju-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/04\/18\/rijiju-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Rijiju tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 17 Apr:<\/strong> Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said that he has tested positive for Covid-19 but is feeling &#8220;fit and fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 49-year-old posted the development on his Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;After getting repeated test for Covid-19, today my report has come out positive,&#8221; Rijiju wrote in his Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m taking the advice of the doctors. I request all those who have come in my contact recently to be observant, exercise self-quarantine and get themselves tested. I&#8217;m physically fit and fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rijiju was in Uttarakhand on Friday to inaugurate a water sports and adventure institute in Tehri. State chief minister Tirath Singh Rawat, who recovered recently from the dreaded infection, was with him at the inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India is witnessing an unprecedented surge in Covid-19 cases with 2,34,692 fresh infections being reported in the country on Tuesday, the biggest daily spike so far. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 17 Apr: Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said that he has tested positive for Covid-19 but is feeling &#8220;fit and fine.&#8221; The 49-year-old posted the development on his Twitter page. &#8220;After getting repeated test for Covid-19, today my report has come out positive,&#8221; Rijiju wrote in his Twitter handle. &#8220;I&#8217;m taking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-156312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}