{"id":320702,"date":"2020-03-04T06:38:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320702"},"modified":"2020-03-04T06:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:38:25","slug":"coronavirus-outbreak-pm-modi-says-wont-participate-in-holi-milan-asks-people-to-reduce-mass-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-outbreak-pm-modi-says-wont-participate-in-holi-milan-asks-people-to-reduce-mass-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Outbreak: \u00a0PM Modi says, won\u2019t participate in Holi Milan, asks people to reduce mass gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-320308 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_20200223-191100__01-616x420.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that he would not be participating in the Holi celebrations and asked people to avoid gatherings, amid coronavirus fears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cExperts across the world have advised to reduce mass gatherings to avoid the spread of COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus. Hence, this year I have decided not to participate in any Holi Milan programme,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi yesterday held a review meeting of the coronavirus situation in India and said there is no need to panic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ministry of health Affairs on Tuesday issued a travel advisory in which visas of travelers from Iran, Italy, Japan and South Korea has been suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll regular (sticker) Visas\/e-Visa (including VoA for Japan and South Korea) granted to nationals of Italy, Iran, South Korea, Japan and issued on or before 03.03.2020 and who have not yet entered India, stand suspended with immediate effect. Those who want to travel to India due to compelling reasons, may seek fresh visa from nearest Indian Embassy\/Consulate,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced that he would not be participating in the Holi celebrations and asked people to avoid gatherings, amid coronavirus fears. \u201cExperts across the world have advised to reduce mass gatherings to avoid the spread of COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus. Hence, this year I have decided not to participate in any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":320308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12470,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320703,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320702\/revisions\/320703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/320308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}