{"id":323010,"date":"2020-05-06T02:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T02:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323010"},"modified":"2020-05-06T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T03:26:09","slug":"covid-19-lockdown-extended-in-telangana-till-may-29-cm%e2%80%89k-chandrashekar-rao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-lockdown-extended-in-telangana-till-may-29-cm%e2%80%89k-chandrashekar-rao\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 lockdown extended in Telangana till May 29: CM\u2009K Chandrashekar Rao"},"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-323011 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rao.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/rao.jpg 524w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/rao-300x295.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/05\/rao-427x420.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/>Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday announced extension of lockdown in the state till May 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A decision to this effect was taken at state cabinet meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking to reporters after the cabinet meeting, Rao said that night-time curfew would continue in the entire state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Public should complete purchase of essential items by 6 pm and be back home. There will be curfew in the state from 7 pm. If anyone is found outside, police will initiate action,&#8221; Rao said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rao said he will hold a review meeting on May 15 to discuss further course of action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Telangana has reported 1,085 COVID-19 cases so far with 29 fatalities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Tuesday announced extension of lockdown in the state till May 29. A decision to this effect was taken at state cabinet meeting. Speaking to reporters after the cabinet meeting, Rao said that night-time curfew would continue in the entire state. &#8220;Public should complete purchase of essential items by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":323011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2072,2014,2921],"tags":[13018,2226],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323010"}],"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=323010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323012,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323010\/revisions\/323012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/323011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}