{"id":3186,"date":"2020-03-27T07:52:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T07:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=3186"},"modified":"2020-03-27T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T07:52:23","slug":"covid-19-j-k-govt-cautions-religious-leaders-against-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/27\/covid-19-j-k-govt-cautions-religious-leaders-against-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: J-K govt cautions religious leaders against gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jammu and Kashmir Principal Secretary Planning&nbsp;Rohit Kansal&nbsp;on Friday\n directed Deputy Commissioners and Superintendents of Police in the \nUnion Territory to strictly caution all religious leaders not to call \nany gatherings as a precautionary measure against COVID-19.<br>\n\u201cJammu and Kashmir #FightagainstCorona \u2014 DCs and SPs advised to strictly\n caution all religious leaders NOT to call any gatherings. Public \ngatherings a major source of social contact and spread of the virus,\u201d \nKansal tweeted.<br>\nOn Thursday, Kansal had confirmed first COVID-19 death in Srinagar after a 65-year-old man succumbed to the disease.<br>\nKansal had informed that four of the deceased\u2019s contact had also tested positive for coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFour of his contacts also tested positive yesterday (Wednesday),\u201d he had said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stressing on social distancing to prevent coronavirus spread, the \nofficer said: \u201cIt is still not too late. Help Break The Chain. Stay \nindoors. Self declare. Report travel history or any symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Health Ministry, there are seven cases of the disease in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu and Kashmir Principal Secretary Planning&nbsp;Rohit Kansal&nbsp;on Friday directed Deputy Commissioners and Superintendents of Police in the Union Territory to strictly caution all religious leaders not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3186","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}