{"id":459198,"date":"2021-12-30T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T03:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=459198"},"modified":"2021-12-30T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T04:19:53","slug":"delhi-health-minister-says-rise-in-covid-cases-due-to-international-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhi-health-minister-says-rise-in-covid-cases-due-to-international-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Health Minister says rise in Covid cases due to international flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a spike in COVID-19 cases in the city, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said many international travellers, who have tested negative at the airport, are testing positive after a few days and infecting their family members during the period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cases have increased due to international flights. Even during the earlier wave, the cases rose with flights coming in,&#8221; the minister told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Delhi on Wednesday recorded 238 Omicron cases. There were 165 cases of the new variant a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The national capital on Tuesday registered a massive spike in daily COVID-19 with 496 fresh cases, the highest since June 4, while the positivity rate also rose to 0.89 percent along with one fatality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a spike in COVID-19 cases in the city, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday said many international travellers, who have tested negative at the airport, are testing positive after a few days and infecting their family members during the period. &#8220;The cases have increased due to international flights. Even during the earlier wave, the cases rose with flights coming in,&#8221; the minister told reporters. Delhi on Wednesday recorded 238 Omicron cases. There were 165 cases of the new variant a day earlier. The national capital on Tuesday registered a massive spike in daily COVID-19 with 496 fresh cases, [&hellip;]<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459198","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=459198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}