{"id":321976,"date":"2020-04-09T07:45:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321976"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:12:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T08:12:53","slug":"odisha-extends-covid-19-lockdown-till-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/odisha-extends-covid-19-lockdown-till-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Odisha extends Covid-19 lockdown till April 30"},"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-321977 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/neveen-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/neveen-1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/neveen-1-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/>Odisha on Thursday became the first state in the country to extend the 21-day lockdown. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a video message, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that his government has decided to extend the lockdown till April 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Patnaik recommended Union government to extend the national lockdown till April 30. Moreover, he requested the government not to start airline and railway services during the lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Schools and educational institutions in Odisha will remain closed till June 17, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOdisha Cabinet headed by CM @Naveen_Odisha decided to extend the state lockdown till April 30th &amp; recommended Union Government to extend the national lockdown till then. CM requested the GoI not to start train &amp; air services during the lockdown,\u201d CMO Odisha tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Health Ministry, Odisha has reported 42 coronavirus cases with one fatality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha on Thursday became the first state in the country to extend the 21-day lockdown. \u00a0 In a video message, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said that his government has decided to extend the lockdown till April 30. Patnaik recommended Union government to extend the national lockdown till April 30. Moreover, he requested the government not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014],"tags":[12468,4580,2174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321976"}],"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=321976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321980,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321976\/revisions\/321980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}