{"id":8872,"date":"2020-03-16T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:03","slug":"coronavirus-in-india-confirmed-cases-110-mumbai-and-some-other-cities-impose-section-144-to-restrict-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/coronavirus-in-india-confirmed-cases-110-mumbai-and-some-other-cities-impose-section-144-to-restrict-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in India: confirmed cases 110, Mumbai and some other cities impose Section 144 to restrict gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>The number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country being 110 and thousands of people quarantined, the Ministry of Health is taking several measures as precaution to prevent its spread.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The ministry has issued a directive saying hospitals can release Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) patients only after two consecutive samples test negative within 24 hours. This has to be accompanied by clearance of chest radiography report and respiratory samples.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Thirteen persons have been cured and discharged so far. Odisha reported its first positive COVID-19 case on Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Maharashtra, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh have reported the maximum number of cases with 32, 22 and 12 patients respectively from these states.<br \/>\nThe Health Ministry has already tracked down over 4,000 contacts of confirmed COVID-19 patients and put them under surveillance.<br \/>\nSection 144 has been invoked in several districts of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Maharashtra to prevent the spread of COVID-19 through gatherings. Section 144 has been imposed in some parts of Mumbai.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday announced that India will contribute a fund of\u00a0$10\u00a0million towards a joint fund with all the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) nations for fighting COVID-19 in the region.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra has the maximum number of patients in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[246,346],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-coronavirus-in-india","9":"tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","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=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}