{"id":321150,"date":"2020-03-19T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321150"},"modified":"2020-03-19T10:39:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:39:47","slug":"punjab-suspends-public-transport-services-amid-coronavirus-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-suspends-public-transport-services-amid-coronavirus-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab suspends public transport services amid coronavirus threat"},"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-321151 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/punjab-roadways.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"465\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/punjab-roadways.jpg 465w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/punjab-roadways-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/>The Punjab government on Thursday decided to suspend public transport service from March 20 midnight to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Buses, auto-rickshaws and tempos will not be allowed to ply in the state from midnight of Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision was taken after a group of ministers met to review the state\u2019s preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The state government has also decided to restrict the public gathering to 20 from the existing 50.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All exams in Punjab government-run schools have also been postpone till March 31.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab CM Captain\u00a0Amarinder Singh had earlier appealed to religious organisations to keep gatherings under 50 in support of the government&#8217;s efforts to check the spread of coronavirus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI appeal to all religious organisations to keep their gatherings under 50 persons &amp; advise their followers to observe all health safeguards. As we launch a State-wide door-to-door awareness campaign tomorrow, let us all come together to prevent the outbreak of #Covid in Punjab,\u201d Capt Amarinder had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab government on Thursday decided to suspend public transport service from March 20 midnight to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the state. Buses, auto-rickshaws and tempos will not be allowed to ply in the state from midnight of Friday. The decision was taken after a group of ministers met to review the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[12470,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321150"}],"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=321150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321152,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321150\/revisions\/321152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}