{"id":13767,"date":"2020-08-10T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13767"},"modified":"2020-08-10T13:43:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T13:43:26","slug":"assam-dgp-tests-positive-for-covid-19-guwahati-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=13767","title":{"rendered":"Assam DGP tests positive for Covid-19 | Guwahati News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>GUWAHATI: Director General of Assam Police <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Bhaskar-Jyoti-Mahanta\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Bhaskar-Jyoti-Mahanta\" frmappuse=\"1\">Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta<\/a> 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> on Monday, officials said. <br \/>The top police officer has opted for <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/home-isolation\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_home-isolation\" frmappuse=\"1\">home isolation<\/a>, an official source told . <br \/>&#8220;Healthcare professionals will act as per protocols and test the samples of his immediate contacts,&#8221; a senior official said. <br \/>Since March, around 30 people at the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Assam-Police\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Assam-Police\" frmappuse=\"1\">Assam Police<\/a> Headquarters have tested positive, including the IGP (Law and Order) and DIG (Administration). <br \/>Assam Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/G-P-Singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_G-P-Singh\" frmappuse=\"1\">G P Singh<\/a> on Sunday tweeted that a total of 2,259 personnel from the force have contracted the virus so far, out of whom 1,734 have recovered. <br \/>&#8220;Unfortunately, we have lost six colleagues till date,&#8221; he had said. <br \/>Assam has reported a total of 58,837 coronavirus cases, while 42,325 people have recovered from the disease. <br \/>Altogether 145 people have died due to Covid-19 in the state. T <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/assam-dgp-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/articleshow\/77462920.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: Director General of Assam Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, officials said. The top police officer has opted for home isolation, an official source told . &#8220;Healthcare professionals will act as per protocols and test the samples of his immediate contacts,&#8221; a senior official said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1597067010_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767","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=13767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}