{"id":322110,"date":"2020-04-14T05:26:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322110"},"modified":"2020-04-14T05:38:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:38:25","slug":"pm-modi-extends-nationwide-lockdown-till-may-3-to-contain-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-extends-nationwide-lockdown-till-may-3-to-contain-spread-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi extends nationwide lockdown till May 3 to contain spread of 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-322119 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/modi-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"743\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/modi-1-1.jpg 743w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/modi-1-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/modi-1-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/modi-1-1-696x488.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/modi-1-1-599x420.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus will be extended till May 3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the address, PM Modi\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">thanked everyone for their determination and sacrifice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi said, \u201cwe started screening of passengers coming from COVID-19 affected countries even before when there was any case of infection in India.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said, &#8220;When India had only 550 coronavirus cases, the country took a major decision to implement complete lockdown of 21 days. India did not wait for the problem to become big, but took major steps to tackle it even when it just started to emerge.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;With fast action and early lockdown, India has done much better than the bigger countries, \u201csaid Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;From the economic point of view, we have paid a big price, But the lives of the people of India are far more valuable,&#8221; PM Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday the world is appreciating the way India is moving forward even with the limited resources,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi also said, &#8220;Till 20th April, all regions will be closely monitored, as to how effectively they are implementing norms and on the basis of that some relaxations can be given to those regions with no coronavirus cases. In case any COVID-19 suspect emerges from these regions, the relaxation provided will be revoked.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that the nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus will be extended till May 3. During the address, PM Modi\u00a0thanked everyone for their determination and sacrifice. PM Modi said, \u201cwe started screening of passengers coming from COVID-19 affected countries even before when there was any case of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322119,"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\/322110"}],"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=322110"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322121,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322110\/revisions\/322121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}