{"id":8926,"date":"2020-03-19T19:59:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=8926"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:09:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:39:02","slug":"fourth-death-from-covid-19-in-india-72-year-old-dies-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/fourth-death-from-covid-19-in-india-72-year-old-dies-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth death from COVID-19 in India, 72 year old dies in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":of\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":oe\" class=\"a3s aXjCH \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">A 72-year-old in Punjab&#8217;s Nawanshahar died on Thursday from Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), making it the fourth death from the virus in India. The 72-year old reportedly visited Germany and Italy a week ago. The number of COVID-19 cases in India increased to 169 on Thursday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>Maharashtra and Kerala are two worst-hit states with 44 and 25 COVID-19 cases respectively.<br \/>\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting with chief ministers of all the states on Friday to discuss the situation.<br \/>\nNo international flights will be allowed to land in India from March 22 for one week, it was decided.<br \/>\nVarious state governments have shut down public places like malls, cinemas, gyms and swimming pools. Places of worship have been closed in some cities.<br \/>\nAround 168 trains have been cancelled across the country to restrict movement of people between states.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh was shut down for three days starting Thursday. Rajasthan has imposed Section 144 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) to prevent gatherings.<br \/>\nCongress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday requested the Centre to order an &#8220;immediate lockdown&#8221; on all towns and cities to check the spread of COVID-19.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/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>Total number of cases increased to 169 on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[246,346,92,32],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8926","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","10":"tag-narendra-modi","11":"tag-national-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926","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=8926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8926"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=8926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}