{"id":5026,"date":"2020-06-15T05:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=5026"},"modified":"2020-06-15T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T05:34:09","slug":"spitting-in-public-places-increases-risk-of-covid-19-spread-mohfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/spitting-in-public-places-increases-risk-of-covid-19-spread-mohfw\/","title":{"rendered":"Spitting in public places increases risk of COVID-19 spread: MoHFW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> In order to spread awareness regarding COVID-19, the Union Ministry of Health asked people not to spit in public places as it increases the risk of spread of the fatal virus.<br>\u201cSpitting in public is dangerous to health as it can amplify the risk of\u00a0COVID-19. Do not spit in public places,\u201d\u00a0MoHFW\u00a0(Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India) tweeted.<br>Earlier, some of the states had made spitting prohibited while imposing fines.<br>Maharashtra\u00a0government on May 30 issued an order making spitting and smoking prohibited and imposed a fine up to Rs 5,000 while Karnataka made spitting punishable offence under Sections 188, 268, 269 and 270 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).<br>According to the Noida authority chief executive officer Ritu Maheshwari, spitting in public places in Noida attracts a fine of Rs 500 the first time, and Rs 1,000 for a repeat offence.<br>According to\u00a0MoHFW, India witnessed its highest-ever spike of 11,929 new cases in the last 24 hours, the total number of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0cases in the country rose to 3,20,922.<br>With 311 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, the coronavirus death toll has now reached 9,195.<br>Out of the total number of cases, 1,49,348 are active and 1,62,379 have been cured\/discharged\/migrated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to spread awareness regarding COVID-19, the Union Ministry of Health asked people not to spit in public places as it increases the risk of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5026","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026","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=5026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}