{"id":10156,"date":"2020-08-20T17:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:07:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:37:28","slug":"thursday-fridays-lockdown-glimpses-from-across-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/thursday-fridays-lockdown-glimpses-from-across-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday &#038; Friday&#8217;s lockdown: glimpses from across West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">With Thursday and Friday marked as \u201ccomplete lockdown\u201d in West Bengal, most offices and establishments\u00a0 remained closed today. Police personnel kept strict vigilance across the state to ensure that the lockdown rules were being followed.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Several offices will remain closed for four consecutive days as Saturday and Sunday are weekly holidays for most state and Central government establishments.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Complete lockdown days have been marked for August 5 (Wednesday), 8 (Saturday), 20 (Thursday), 21 (Friday), 27 (Thursday) and 31 (Monday) in West Bengal.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10158\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/thursday-lockdown-5-e1597925378328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/thursday-lockdown-5-e1597925378328.jpg 750w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/thursday-lockdown-5-e1597925378328-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Earlier, August 28 had also been marked as a lockdown date but being a Friday, it would inconvenience people a lot, as banks would be closed during that weekend as well. So that date is no longer being observed as complete lockdown. \u201cFestivals and local community-base customs\u201d this month were coinciding with the dates of lockdown announced earlier, and thus some dates have been revised earlier.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10159\" src=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/thursday-lockdown-4-e1597925452904.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"748\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/thursday-lockdown-4-e1597925452904.jpg 748w, https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/08\/thursday-lockdown-4-e1597925452904-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 748px) 100vw, 748px\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The government has decided to impose a biweekly lockdown in Bengal to contain the spread of COVID-19 after a sudden spike in the number of cases since the last two weeks of July.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four day break for many due to the weekend<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":10157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[347,67,364,50],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","tag-covid-19","tag-kolkata","tag-lockdown","tag-west-bengal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}