{"id":100291,"date":"2020-03-24T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100291"},"modified":"2020-03-24T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T23:00:10","slug":"indias-1-3-billion-people-go-into-full-lockdown-from-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/24\/indias-1-3-billion-people-go-into-full-lockdown-from-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s 1.3 billion people go into full lockdown from midnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> India&#8217;s 1.3 billion people will go into full lockdown from midnight Tuesday(24), for 21 days in a bid to slow down the coronavirus pandemic <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Lockdown measures were already in place from Monday in many major cities, but will now be extended to &ldquo;every village, every district&rdquo; in the nation, according to the prime minister said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Speaking in a televised national address, PM Modi told Indians to forget what it feels like to leave their homes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hirunews.lk\/Data\/News_Images\/202003\/1585064512_7994126_hirunews_Modi.jpg\" alt=\"India%27s+1.3+billion+people+go+into+full+lockdown+from+midnight+%2824%29\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> He further stated that 21 days of lockdown is a long time but this is important for their safety and for the safety of their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> If we don&#8217;t handle these 21 days well, then our country, your family will go backwards by 21 years said the Indian Premier in his address to the nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nPM Modi said that some think social distancing is only for patients, and that&#8217;s not correct, social distancing is the only way to fight the virus, it is for every citizen, every family, every member, even for the Prime Minister.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News India&#8217;s 1.3 billion people will go into full lockdown from midnight Tuesday(24), for 21 days in a bid to slow down the coronavirus pandemic Lockdown measures were already in place from Monday in many major cities, but will now be extended to &ldquo;every village, every district&rdquo; in the nation, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}