{"id":116,"date":"2021-03-11T19:26:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=98321"},"modified":"2021-03-11T19:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:56:54","slug":"sunil-chhetri-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/sunil-chhetri-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Chhetri tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Star footballer and Indian Football Team\u2019s skipper Sunil Chhetri on Thursday informed that he has tested positive for Covid-19. He took it to Twitter and said he was \u201cfine\u201d and recovering and soon would be seen on the field. \u00a0\u201cIn a not-so-happy update, I\u2019ve tested positive for COVID-19. In better news, I feel fine as I continue my recovery from the virus and should be back on a football pitch soon,\u201d Chhetri tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In a not-so-happy update, I've tested positive for COVID-19. In better news, I feel fine as I continue my recovery from the virus and should be back on a football pitch soon. No better time to keep reminding everyone to continue taking all the safety precautions always.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sunil Chhetri (@chetrisunil11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chetrisunil11\/status\/1369964331098533888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo better time to keep reminding everyone to continue taking all the safety precautions always,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Chhetri represented Bengaluru FC in the seventh season of the Indian Super League. Though it was a fruitless season for the blues as they finished seventh in the points table after the group stage matches.<\/p>\n<p>India will play back-to-back international matches against Oman and UAE in Dubai. Last week, Chhetri\u2019s name was added to the 35-member list of probable players who might take part in the upcoming international matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star footballer and Indian Football Team\u2019s skipper Sunil Chhetri on Thursday informed that he has tested positive for Covid-19. He\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":23259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1566,127],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-indian-football-team","tag-sunil-chhetri"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}