{"id":14961,"date":"2021-04-22T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2021-04-22T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:38:11","slug":"trinamool-leader-madan-mitra-tests-covid-19-positive-admitted-to-kolkata-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamool-leader-madan-mitra-tests-covid-19-positive-admitted-to-kolkata-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinamool leader Madan Mitra tests COVID-19 positive, admitted to Kolkata hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress leader and former Bengal minister Madan Mitra has tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to a hospital off Kolkata\u2019s EM Bypass on Wednesday evening. He was earlier admitted in the state-run SSKM Hospital for respiratory distress.<\/p>\n<p>Mitra, 66, contested the polls this time from Kamarhati constituency \u2013 where he won in 2011 but lost to CPI(M)&#8217;s Manas Mukherjee in 2016 Assembly election.<\/p>\n<p>Kamarhati voted in the earlier phase on Saturday, and Mitra was taken ill during the polling that day. He was advised by doctors to remain under close observation for a week after initial treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress leader and former Bengal minister Madan Mitra has tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to a hospital off Kolkata\u2019s EM Bypass on Wednesday evening. He was earlier admitted in the state-run SSKM Hospital for respiratory distress. Mitra, 66, contested the polls this time from Kamarhati constituency \u2013 where he won in 2011 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":5910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[387,246,346,525,371,792,583],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","9":"tag-coronavirus-in-india","10":"tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","11":"tag-covid-19-vaccine","12":"tag-lockdown-in-india","13":"tag-madan-mitra","14":"tag-top-story"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14961"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=14961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}