{"id":8840,"date":"2020-03-12T16:45:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:04","slug":"exceptional-situations-require-exceptional-responses-external-affairs-minister-on-covid-19-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/exceptional-situations-require-exceptional-responses-external-affairs-minister-on-covid-19-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceptional situations require exceptional responses:\u00a0 External Affairs Minister on COVID-19 measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":ng\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":nh\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Union Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar on Thursday said in the Lok Sabha that &#8220;exceptional situations require exceptional responses.&#8221; He was speaking on the measures taken by the Centre to check the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in India. The current situation in India is a &#8220;matter of concern&#8221;, he said as the number of positive COVID-19 patients increased to 73 on Thursday.<br \/>\nThe Centre on Wednesday issued an advisory which suspended the visas of foreign nationals from March 13 to April 15 in order to contain the spread of the virus.<br \/>\nIt has also asked the states to implement the Epidemic Disease Act, 1897 which makes flouting of health-related regulations is a punishable offence.<br \/>\nJaishankar stated that the primary concern for Centre now is to bring back around 1,000 Indian pilgrims stranded in Iran. Around 6,000 Indians are stranded in Iran currently. A batch of 58 Indians was brought back on Tuesday.<br \/>\nOver 4,500 people have died and over one lakh people have been infected across 100 countries from COVID-19 which was declared a pandemic on Wednesday by the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A matter of concern, the Union minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[192,246,32,354],"class_list":["post-8840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-india","tag-national-news","tag-s-jaishankar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840","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=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}