{"id":2967,"date":"2020-06-28T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2020-06-28T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T15:01:32","slug":"bengal-safari-to-open-after-taking-covid-safety-measures-minister-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"Bengal Safari to open after taking Covid safety measures: Minister | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>JALPAIGURI: The Bengal Safari, a state government-run <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/wild-animals-park\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_wild-animals-park\" frmappuse=\"1\">wild animals park<\/a>, in Darjeeling district and other tourist spots under the forest department will be opened after taking all precautionary measures to check the spread of coronavirus, a minister said on Sunday. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want a spike in <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/coronavirus\" frmappuse=\"1\">coronavirus cases<\/a>. We will not open the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Bengal-Safari\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Bengal-Safari\" frmappuse=\"1\">Bengal Safari<\/a> and other tourist spots hastily,&#8221; forest minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Rajib-Banerjee\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Rajib-Banerjee\" frmappuse=\"1\">Rajib Banerjee<\/a> said. <br \/>The government closed the tourist spots under the department in March in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Covid-19-outbreak\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Covid-19-outbreak\" frmappuse=\"1\">Covid-19 outbreak<\/a>. <br \/>A meeting will be held on Monday on this issue, the minister said. <br \/>Banerjee was talking to reporters during a visit to a beat office under Belakoba Forest Range of Baikunthapur forest in Jalpaiguri district. <br \/>He donated a wheelchair to a person and handed over rice, eggs and other items to local people. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/bengal-safari-to-open-after-taking-covid-safety-measures-minister\/articleshow\/76674446.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JALPAIGURI: The Bengal Safari, a state government-run wild animals park, in Darjeeling district and other tourist spots under the forest department will be opened after taking all precautionary measures to check the spread of coronavirus, a minister said on Sunday. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want a spike in coronavirus cases. We will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1593356500_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}