{"id":3944,"date":"2020-07-03T13:43:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2020-07-03T13:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:43:44","slug":"indian-army-brigadier-who-tested-positive-for-covid-19-dies-in-kolkata-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=3944","title":{"rendered":"Indian Army Brigadier, who tested positive for Covid-19, dies in Kolkata &#8211; india news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A brigadier of the Indian Army died in Kolkata on Thursday after testing positive for Covid-19, a few days ago. A senior official said that the brigadier was posted at the Eastern Command headquarters in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>After he tested positive for Covid-19, he was initially shifted to the military hospital in Barrackpore, the designated Covid-hospital for defence personnel. As his health deteriorated due to complications, he was shifted to the Command Hospital in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liveupdates.hindustantimes.com\/india\/coronavirus-india-world-latest-news-covid-19-death-toll-july-02-2020-21593645450742.html\" title=\"For Coronavirus Live Updates\">For Coronavirus Live Updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He, however, succumbed due to acute respiratory problems arising due to pneumonia and Covid-19 complications.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife and two daughters. They had also tested positive but have recovered. <\/p>\n<p><!--   section:india-news mainSection:india-news-->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/indian-army-brigadier-who-tested-positive-for-covid-19-dies-in-kolkata\/story-6xWsk2bsoXiSGdNkEE9BAP.html\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brigadier of the Indian Army died in Kolkata on Thursday after testing positive for Covid-19, a few days ago. A senior official said that the brigadier was posted at the Eastern Command headquarters in Kolkata. After he tested positive for Covid-19, he was initially shifted to the military hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3944","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\/ghaziabad-lockdown-covid-19-day-92_bf6271b2-bc8e-11ea-9fb0-50c382f93f50.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","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=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}