{"id":10720,"date":"2020-07-30T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T22:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2020-07-30T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T22:43:54","slug":"coronavirus-in-kolkata-25-id-health-workers-test-positive-for-covid-19-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=10720","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in Kolkata: 25 ID health workers test positive for Covid-19 | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>KOLKATA: At least 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/healthcare-workers\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_healthcare-workers\" frmappuse=\"1\">healthcare workers<\/a>, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nursing-students\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_nursing-students\" frmappuse=\"1\">nursing students<\/a> attached with <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ID-Hospital\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_ID-Hospital\" frmappuse=\"1\">ID Hospital<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Beliaghata\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Beliaghata\" frmappuse=\"1\">Beliaghata<\/a>, have tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Covid-19\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Covid-19\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid-19<\/a>. <br \/>The hospital officials said majority of them are asymptomatic and they are on home isolation. A few of them got admitted to the hospital and their conditions were stated to be stable. <br \/>Sources in the hospital said the healthcare workers, who have tested positive for the virus in the past few days, include nurses, pathologists, pharmacists and group D employees. None of them were reportedly not involved in the treatment of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Covid-patients\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Covid-patients\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid patients<\/a>. The nodal hospital for Covid-19 in the state has been treating corona patients since the first case had been reported in the state. Though healthcare workers\u2019 getting infected with Covid-19 in various hospitals has become common, this is for the first time that so many healthcare workers tested positive in ID Hospital. <br \/>The hospital currently has more than 100 patients undergoing treatment in its Covid ward. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/25-id-health-workers-test-covve\/articleshow\/77249889.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: At least 25 healthcare workers, including the nursing students attached with ID Hospital, Beliaghata, have tested positive for Covid-19. The hospital officials said majority of them are asymptomatic and they are on home isolation. A few of them got admitted to the hospital and their conditions were stated to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1596149036_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}