{"id":126780,"date":"2020-06-01T01:26:32","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T19:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=126780"},"modified":"2020-06-01T01:26:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T19:56:32","slug":"pm-asks-people-to-not-lower-guard-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/01\/pm-asks-people-to-not-lower-guard-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PM asks people to not lower guard against Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>NEW DELHI, May 31:<\/strong> With lockdown relaxations expanding, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cautioned people against showing any laxity in the fight against Covid-19 and asked them to be &#8220;extra alert and careful&#8221;, while acknowledging that the poor and labourers have been hit the hardest by the crisis.<br \/>\nThe pain that the poor, working class and labourers suffered cannot be described in words, he said, stating that the current scenario is an &#8220;eye opener to happenings in the past&#8221; in the country and offers opportunity for scrutiny and lessons for the future.<br \/>\nIn his monthly &#8216;Mann Ki Baat&#8217; broadcast, Modi noted that a big part of the economy has opened and train and flight services have begun operating partially with more relaxations on the anvil, but warned people against letting their guards down.<br \/>\nAfter such &#8220;austere penance and after so many hardships&#8221;, the country&#8217;s deft handling of the situation should &#8220;not go in vain&#8221;, he said.<br \/>\nThe prime minister&#8217;s note of caution came on a day India registered its highest single-day spike of Covid-19 cases with 8,380 new infections, taking the country&#8217;s tally to 1,82,143, while the death toll rose to 5,164, according to the Union Health Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, May 31: With lockdown relaxations expanding, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday cautioned people against showing any laxity in the fight against Covid-19 and asked them to be &#8220;extra alert and careful&#8221;, while acknowledging that the poor and labourers have been hit the hardest by the crisis. The pain that the poor, working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-126780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}