{"id":9184,"date":"2020-04-13T17:43:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T12:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:38:58","slug":"tamil-nadu-seventh-state-to-extend-lockdown-till-april-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/tamil-nadu-seventh-state-to-extend-lockdown-till-april-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu seventh state to extend lockdown till April 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tamil Nadu chief minister E Palaniswami on Monday announced that the ongoing lockdown would be extended in his state till April 30.\u00a0The country-wide lockdown which was imposed on March 24 midnight to contain the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), is scheduled to end Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 10 am Tuesday when he will announce his decision on whether to extend the lockdown or not.<\/p>\n<p>States like West Bengal, Odisha, Punjab, Maharashtra, Telangana and Rajasthan have already extended the lockdown in their respective states till April 30.<\/p>\n<p>Some chief ministers however, have said that states extending lockdown on their own will not be much effective in limiting the spread of COVID-19 and urged the PM to extend the lockdown nationally for it to be effective.<\/p>\n<p>The PM had indicated at the meeting that the ongoing lockdown is likely to be extended by two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six states have already announced extending the lockdown till April 30.<\/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":[246,371],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9184","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-lockdown-in-india"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","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=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/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=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}