{"id":321868,"date":"2020-04-04T11:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T11:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321868"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T11:42:27","slug":"pm-modi-chairs-meeting-of-empowered-groups-reviews-preparedness-on-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-chairs-meeting-of-empowered-groups-reviews-preparedness-on-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi chairs meeting of empowered groups, reviews preparedness on COVID-19"},"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 Saturday chaired a joint meeting of the Empowered Group constituted to combat Covid-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPM @narendramodi chaired a joint meeting of the Empowered Groups constituted for planning and ensuring implementation of COVID-19 response activities in the country,\u201d Prime Minister office tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi reviewed countrywide preparedness regarding availability of hospitals, proper isolation and quarantine facilities as well as disease surveillance, testing and critical care training.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also directed the concerned groups and officials to ensure sufficient production, procurement and availability of all essential medical equipment such as PPEs, masks, gloves and ventilators.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday chaired a joint meeting of the Empowered Group constituted to combat Covid-19. \u201cPM @narendramodi chaired a joint meeting of the Empowered Groups constituted for planning and ensuring implementation of COVID-19 response activities in the country,\u201d Prime Minister office tweeted. PM Modi reviewed countrywide preparedness regarding availability of hospitals, proper [&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":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321868"}],"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=321868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321869,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321868\/revisions\/321869"}],"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=321868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}