{"id":391069,"date":"2020-12-23T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T04:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=391069"},"modified":"2020-12-23T11:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:50:33","slug":"2-passengers-from-uk-test-covid-ve-at-kolkata-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/2-passengers-from-uk-test-covid-ve-at-kolkata-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"2 passengers from UK test Covid +ve at Kolkata airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two passengers tested positive for Covid-19 at Kolkata airport on Sunday, officials said on Tuesday. According to sources, the state health department was immediately informed and all protocols were followed.<\/p>\n<p>The state health department is conducting genome sequencing of the two passengers to determine if they have been infected by the more transmissible new strain of SARS-CoV-2, which causes the coronavirus disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will take at least one week\u2019s time to confirm if they have been infected with the new strain of coronavirus. The samples are being sent for genome sequencing,\u201d a senior health official told The Indiain Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two passengers tested positive for Covid-19 at Kolkata airport on Sunday, officials said on Tuesday. According to sources, the state health department was immediately informed and all protocols were followed. The state health department is conducting genome sequencing of the two passengers to determine if they have been infected by the more transmissible new strain of SARS-CoV-2, which causes the coronavirus disease. \u201cIt will take at least one week\u2019s time to confirm if they have been infected with the new strain of coronavirus. The samples are being sent for genome sequencing,\u201d a senior health official told The Indiain Express.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}