{"id":20421,"date":"2020-07-12T04:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jul\/11\/bollywood-superstar-amitabh-bachchan-tests-positive-for-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-07-12T04:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:03:38","slug":"bollywood-superstar-amitabh-bachchan-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20421","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan tests positive for coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bachchan\u2019s son Abhishek has also tested positive for the virus, and both are in hospital<\/p>\n<p>Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is hospitalised in Mumbai, India\u2019s financial and entertainment capital.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on Saturday, Bachchan, 77, said his family and staff have also undergone tests and are awaiting results. He appealed to those who were in close proximity to him in the past 10 days to get themselves tested.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jul\/11\/bollywood-superstar-amitabh-bachchan-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachchan\u2019s son Abhishek has also tested positive for the virus, and both are in hospitalBollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is hospitalised in Mumbai, India\u2019s financial and entertainment capital.In a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,1069,71,69,62,454,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-mumbai","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions\/20422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}