{"id":371,"date":"2021-12-09T22:08:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=171812"},"modified":"2021-12-09T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T16:44:58","slug":"indian-womens-hockey-team-forced-out-of-act-following-covid-positive-case-in-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/indian-womens-hockey-team-forced-out-of-act-following-covid-positive-case-in-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Women\u2019s Hockey team forced out of ACT following COVID-19 positive case in squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Women\u2019s Hockey team chuck out of the ongoing Asian Championship Trophy. As one of the players from team India tested out positive for the COVID-19 virus. Not only India but Team Malaysia was also forced out to draw themselves out of ATC. As the team, Malaysia is also being struck by the COVID-19 Virus here.<\/p>\n<p>Press Trust of India (PTI) was being told by a Hockey Federation Source that the Indian Women\u2019s team will not be able to fight in the ATC event. This information was out to PTI just a day after India\u2019s match got cancelled against the team China and the host Korea, the defending champions. Which was scheduled on Wednesday (8<sup>th<\/sup> of December) and China on Thursday (9<sup>th<\/sup> of December) The positive sides are currently under quarantine but there is still no specification of the positive player.<\/p>\n<p>Asian Hockey Federation sources stated that India, the runner-up of the last edition, due to a positive case in their squad, won\u2019t be able to be a part of this tournament anymore.<\/p>\n<p>India earlier with a drag-flicker beat Thailand by 13-0. Where 5 goals came from Gurjit Kaur. India is the highest team taking part. As In the women\u2019s ranking in International Hockey Federation\u2019s, India is at ninth place.<\/p>\n<p>This women\u2019s Asian Championship was put back several times due to this COVID Pandemic, as it was originally scheduled to hold in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A player of the Indian Women\u2019s Hockey team tested COVID-19 positive and due to this, the team had to end their Asian Championship Trophy Campaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2580,281,1732],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-covid-case","tag-hockey","tag-hockey-india"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}