{"id":17823,"date":"2020-08-27T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=17823"},"modified":"2020-08-27T07:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T07:19:50","slug":"olympian-usain-bolt-reported-to-have-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=17823","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Usain Bolt Reported to Have COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TUESDAY, Aug. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Eight-time Olympic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/running\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"sub\">running<\/a> champion Usain Bolt has tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a>, according to a Jamaican newspaper, but the world&#8217;s fastest man hasn&#8217;t confirmed he has the disease.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Gleaner<\/i> newspaper said Jamaica&#8217;s health ministry said that Bolt&#8217;s test was positive, according to the <i>Reuters<\/i> news agency.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Bolt said he&#8217;s self-quarantining after being tested for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"slide\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a> on Saturday, but didn&#8217;t say if he had the illness. In a Twitter video, Bolt said he had no symptoms, but told friends he&#8217;d been in contact with to take precautions, <i>CBS News<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Friends threw Bolt a surprise birthday party on Saturday that was attended by sports and music stars, according to Jamaican newspapers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=245742\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, Aug. 25, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Eight-time Olympic running champion Usain Bolt has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a Jamaican newspaper, but the world&#8217;s fastest man hasn&#8217;t confirmed he has the disease. The Gleaner newspaper said Jamaica&#8217;s health ministry said that Bolt&#8217;s test was positive, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596698165_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823","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=17823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}