{"id":9170,"date":"2020-09-19T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T07:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2020-09-19T07:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T07:46:45","slug":"fight-against-tb-has-slowed-down-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-kj-alphons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/19\/fight-against-tb-has-slowed-down-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-kj-alphons\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight against TB has slowed down due to COVID-19 pandemic: KJ Alphons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rajya Sabha MP and&nbsp;Bharatiya Janata Party&nbsp;(BJP) leader KJ Alphons on Saturday raised the issue of&nbsp;Tuberculosis&nbsp;cases in the country and said that the fight against this infectious disease has slowed down due to coronavirus pandemic.<br>He urged the Centre to work in the direction for treating the people infected with TB.<br>\u201cThere are 24 lakh&nbsp;Tuberculosis&nbsp;patients in India. Due to the focus on fighting COVID19, the fight against TB has slowed down,\u201d he said in the Upper House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that India has fixed a deadline of 2025 for eradicating TB against the global deadline of 2030. He has asked MPs to work for its removal.<br>Meanwhile, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday moved the bill for the amendment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 in the Rajya Sabha on Saturday.<br>Earlier, BJP MPs Sonal Mansingh and Neeraj Shekhar gave Zero Hour notices in the Upper House.<br>While Mansingh gave the notice over the demand to provide support to artists facing a hard time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Shekhar gave it demanding the inclusion of Bhojpuri in Schedule 8 of the Constitution.<br>The Monsoon Session of the Parliament commenced on Monday and is slated to end on October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajya Sabha MP and&nbsp;Bharatiya Janata Party&nbsp;(BJP) leader KJ Alphons on Saturday raised the issue of&nbsp;Tuberculosis&nbsp;cases in the country and said that the fight against this infectious&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9170","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-jammu","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}