{"id":69978,"date":"2020-04-14T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=69978"},"modified":"2020-04-14T14:39:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T06:39:50","slug":"india-extends-lockdown-to-may-3-covid-19-cases-cross-10000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=69978","title":{"rendered":"India extends lockdown to May 3, Covid-19 cases cross  10,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, April 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; India on Tuesday extended the nationwide shutdown to contain the coronavirus until May 3 as the number of infections crossed 10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the measure was needed to stop the pandemic&#8217;s spread to new areas and urged people to maintain discipline during the lockdown that would keep 1.3 billion people indoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lockdown was initially announced for 21 days starting March 25, but many Indian states were in favour of continuing it for some more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It has been decided that the lockdown in India will have to be extended till May 3,&#8221; Modi said in a television address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We must not let the coronavirus spread to new areas at any cost,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some restrictions may be relaxed after April 20 in places that are successful in combating the disease, the prime minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India&#8217;s latest reported coronavirus positive cases were about 10,400 and the death toll was 358.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, April 14 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; India on Tuesday extended the nationwide shutdown to contain the coronavirus until May 3 as the number of infections crossed 10,000. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the measure was needed to stop the pandemic&#8217;s spread to new areas and urged people to maintain discipline during the lockdown that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":64924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}