{"id":323041,"date":"2020-05-07T05:18:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T05:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=323041"},"modified":"2020-05-07T05:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T05:22:13","slug":"pm-modi-praises-health-workers-for-leading-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-praises-health-workers-for-leading-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi praises health workers for leading fight against 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 Thursday extended his wishes to everyone on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He lauded the health worker community\u00a0for their massive efforts in fighting COVID-19.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a virtual address on Buddha Poornima event, Modi said, \u201cDuring this difficult time of lockdown, there are several people who are working 24 hours to help others, to maintain law and order, to cure infected people. All such people deserve appreciation and honour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;India is standing strong and selflessly in these difficult times with those facing trouble in India or across the globe,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia is constantly working to help other countries across the globe and will continue to do the same. To stop after getting tired cannot be a solution to any problem. All of us have to fight together to defeat COVID-19,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The event is being organised in honour of the Victims and the frontline warriors of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday extended his wishes to everyone on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. He lauded the health worker community\u00a0for their massive efforts in fighting COVID-19.\u00a0 In a virtual address on Buddha Poornima event, Modi said, \u201cDuring this difficult time of lockdown, there are several people who are working 24 hours to [&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\/323041"}],"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=323041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323046,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323041\/revisions\/323046"}],"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=323041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}