{"id":322393,"date":"2020-04-18T09:03:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322393"},"modified":"2020-04-18T09:03:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T09:03:48","slug":"coronavirus-pandemic-a-huge-challenge-but-also-an-opportunity-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/coronavirus-pandemic-a-huge-challenge-but-also-an-opportunity-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus pandemic a huge challenge but also an opportunity: Rahul Gandhi"},"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-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>The COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected more than 14,000 people in the country is a huge challenge but also an opportunity, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe #Covid19 pandemic is a huge challenge but it is also an opportunity. We need to mobilise our huge pool of scientists, engineers &amp; data experts to work on innovative solutions needed during the crisis,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His tweet comes two days after he said a \u2018lockdown is like a pause button, but not a solution to fight Coronavirus\u2019. He recommended that the government should go for testing \u201caggressively and strategically\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing a press meet via video-conferencing, Rahul said, \u201cWhen we come out of lockdown, virus will start its work again. So, it\u2019s important that we have a strategy to come out of lockdown.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLockdown allows time and space to put in medical resources: ramp up testing abilities, prepare hospitals, get ventilators. In no way does a lockdown defeat the virus, it helps only to stop the virus for some time. Biggest weapon against virus is testing,\u201d said Congress leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gandhi said all political parties and people of India should work together to solve the problem and defeat this virus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic, which has infected more than 14,000 people in the country is a huge challenge but also an opportunity, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday. \u201cThe #Covid19 pandemic is a huge challenge but it is also an opportunity. We need to mobilise our huge pool of scientists, engineers &amp; data experts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[12933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322393"}],"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=322393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322394,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322393\/revisions\/322394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}