{"id":9202,"date":"2020-04-15T17:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T12:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9202"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:38:58","slug":"kmc-to-track-slum-dwellers-to-check-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/kmc-to-track-slum-dwellers-to-check-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"KMC to track slum dwellers to check COVID-19"},"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=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) will keep a vigil on slums in the city to collect relevant information that will help it take necessary preventive measures to check the spread of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim said this after a meeting with chief secretary Rajiva Sinha on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Slums, which are overcrowded, are high-risk zones for COVID-19. It was also brought to KMC&#8217;s notice that slum dwellers have been flouting lockdown norms and roaming around. The authorities feel that it is important to keep a watch on those living in slums and are suffering from any illness.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Officials will collect data on the number of people who are suffering from any illness and keep a track of the nature of illness, especially for elderly people. Councillors of respective wards will assist them in the work.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">If unusual symptoms are noticed, they will be admitted to hospital immediately.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" dir=\"auto\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/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>Slums need to be under special scrutiny due to overcrowding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":8130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[346],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202","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=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}