{"id":320994,"date":"2020-03-12T11:38:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320994"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:38:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:38:02","slug":"government-fully-vigilant-dont-panic-take-precautions-pm-modi-on-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-fully-vigilant-dont-panic-take-precautions-pm-modi-on-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Government fully vigilant\u2019; don\u2019t panic, take precautions: PM Modi on Coronavirus"},"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 Thursday said the Government is fully vigilant about the situation due to Coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a series of tweets, PM Modi advised the countrymen to not panic and avoid non-essential travel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Government is fully vigilant about the situation due to COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus . Across ministries &amp; states, multiple steps have been proactively taken to ensure safety of all. These steps are wide-ranging, from suspension of Visas to augmenting healthcare capacities,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSay No to Panic, Say Yes to Precautions. No Minister of the Central Government will travel abroad in the upcoming days,\u201d PM Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI urge our countrymen to also avoid non-essential travel. We can break the chain of spread and ensure safety of all by avoiding large gatherings,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases has risen to 73 in India.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Government is fully vigilant about the situation due to Coronavirus. In a series of tweets, PM Modi advised the countrymen to not panic and avoid non-essential travel.\u00a0 \u201cThe Government is fully vigilant about the situation due to COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus . Across ministries &amp; states, multiple steps [&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\/320994"}],"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=320994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320995,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320994\/revisions\/320995"}],"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=320994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}