{"id":9174,"date":"2020-04-13T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9174"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:38:58","slug":"covid-19-in-bengal-wearing-masks-when-you-step-out-of-home-is-now-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/covid-19-in-bengal-wearing-masks-when-you-step-out-of-home-is-now-mandatory\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in Bengal: wearing masks when you step out of home is now mandatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government on Sunday made it compulsory for people to wear masks especially in public places to check the spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>In the order, people have been asked to\u00a0cover their nose and mouth either with masks or any available piece of clothing like \u201c<em>dupatta<\/em>, <em>gamcha<\/em>, handkerchief\u201d or any other protective covering.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Chandigarh and Odisha among others had made it compulsory to wear masks in public.<\/p>\n<p>The step has been taken as COVID-19 virus is known to spread through droplets emitted while talking, coughing or sneezing. Wearing masks will thus help in limiting the spread of infection to a large extent.<\/p>\n<p>Till Sunday, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Bengal was 95. The number of persons who died due to COVID-19 increased to seven on Sunday. The Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR) has authorized seven testing centres in the state to conduct tests for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>[Image representational]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other states too have taken this step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[246,346,371,108],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"category-editors-choice","9":"tag-coronavirus-in-india","10":"tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","11":"tag-lockdown-in-india","12":"tag-west-bengal-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174","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=9174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9174"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}