{"id":321013,"date":"2020-03-13T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321013"},"modified":"2020-03-13T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T08:18:19","slug":"no-ipl-matches-other-sports-events-in-delhi-amid-coronavirus-threat-manish-sisodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/no-ipl-matches-other-sports-events-in-delhi-amid-coronavirus-threat-manish-sisodia\/","title":{"rendered":"No IPL matches, other sports events in Delhi amid coronavirus threat: Manish Sisodia"},"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-306960 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sisodia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sisodia.jpg 607w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sisodia-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/>Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Friday announced that no Indian Premier League (IPL) matches will take place in the National Capital amid coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi will not host the IPL. Sports activities, seminars, conferences where people will gather in huge numbers will not be organized, Sisodia said in a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He asked people to maintain social distancing to prevent the spread of coronavirus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came a day after the Delhi government\u00a0ordered closure of all cinema halls, schools and colleges in the national capital till March 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDelhi govt has declared Coronavirus an epidemic. We need to exercise abundant caution to contain the disease. All cinema halls, schools, colleges in Delhi will be shut until 31st March, but exams will continue as scheduled. People are advised to stay away from public gatherings,\u201d Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Friday announced that no Indian Premier League (IPL) matches will take place in the National Capital amid coronavirus outbreak. Delhi will not host the IPL. Sports activities, seminars, conferences where people will gather in huge numbers will not be organized, Sisodia said in a press conference. He asked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[12470,2441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321013"}],"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=321013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321014,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321013\/revisions\/321014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}