{"id":331336,"date":"2021-03-27T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=331336"},"modified":"2021-03-27T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T09:49:00","slug":"no-possibility-of-lockdown-in-delhi-satyendra-jain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/no-possibility-of-lockdown-in-delhi-satyendra-jain\/","title":{"rendered":"No possibility of lockdown in Delhi: Satyendra Jain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-331337\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/jain-ie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/jain-ie-1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/jain-ie-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/03\/jain-ie-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Health Minister dismissed any possibility of imposing lockdown in Delhi on Saturday, saying it was not a solution to check the spread of the coronavirus that is again surging rapidly.<br \/>\nAccording to Satyendar Jain\u00a0there was a logic behind the lockdown enforced earlier as nobody knew then how the virus propagates.<br \/>\n&#8220;It follows a 14-day cycle &#8212; between a person catching the infection and recovering from it. Experts said the virus will die if a lockdown is imposed for 21 days,&#8221; Jain told reporters.<br \/>\n&#8220;Authorities kept on extending the lockdown, but the virus did not die. I don&#8217;t think lockdown is a solution,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThere is &#8220;no possibility&#8221; of imposing another lockdown in the city, Jain said.<br \/>\nThe minister also added that there were enough hospital beds available for coronavirus patients and it could be increased if the need arises.<br \/>\nOver 1,500 coronavirus cases for the second day reported in Delhi on on Friday, while nine more people, succumbed to the pathogen, the Health Department said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Minister dismissed any possibility of imposing lockdown in Delhi on Saturday, saying it was not a solution to check the spread of the coronavirus that is again surging rapidly. According to Satyendar Jain\u00a0there was a logic behind the lockdown enforced earlier as nobody knew then how the virus propagates. &#8220;It follows a 14-day cycle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":331337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961],"tags":[14006,14007,14008],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331336"}],"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=331336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331338,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331336\/revisions\/331338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/331337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}