{"id":65368,"date":"2020-03-24T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T17:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=65368"},"modified":"2020-03-25T06:25:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T06:25:05","slug":"coronavirus-live-with-folded-hands-pm-announces-21-day-india-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/coronavirus-live-with-folded-hands-pm-announces-21-day-india-lockdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus LIVE: &#8216;With folded hands&#8217; PM announces 21-day India lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Coronavirus LIVE updates:&nbsp;<\/strong>Prime Minister Narendra Modi locked down India for 21-days barring essential services from Tuesday midnight amid&nbsp;Coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br> &#8220;If the virus doesn&#8217;t control in these 21-days, India will go back by 21 years. I appeal with folded hands that please don&#8217;t&nbsp; get out of your homes during lockdown,&#8221; PM Modi said during his address to the nation. <br> &#8220;There is absolutely no need to panic, by converging around shops, you are risking spread of Covid-19,&#8221; he added <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/52905637_101.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/52905637_101.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/52905637_101-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/52905637_101-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/52905637_101-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/52905637_101-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br> The government had earlier deferred deadlines for filing tax returns, extended a tax amnesty program and unveiled other relief steps, while promising more measures to support the economy amid the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. The pandemic that\u2019s infected over 400,000 people globally and 519 in India and brought normal life to a halt. <br><strong>For More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/current-affairs\/coronavirus-live-updates-covid-19-cases-death-toll-in-india-lockdown-section-144-in-delhi-maharashtra-us-italy-wuhan-latest-news-120032300112_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/coronavirus-live-with-folded-hands-pm-announces-21-day-india-lockdown.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus LIVE updates:&nbsp;Prime Minister Narendra Modi locked down India for 21-days barring essential services from Tuesday midnight amid&nbsp;Coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp; &#8220;If the virus doesn&#8217;t control in these 21-days, India will go back by 21 years. I appeal with folded hands that please don&#8217;t&nbsp; get out of your homes during lockdown,&#8221; PM Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}