{"id":9418,"date":"2020-07-26T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2020-07-26T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T10:55:09","slug":"sikkim-extends-coronavirus-lockdown-till-august-1-guwahati-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=9418","title":{"rendered":"Sikkim extends coronavirus lockdown till August 1 | Guwahati News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>GANGTOK: The <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Sikkim-government\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_Sikkim-government\" frmappuse=\"1\">Sikkim government<\/a> has extended the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/statewide-lockdown\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_statewide-lockdown\" frmappuse=\"1\">statewide lockdown<\/a> till August 1 to curb the spread of the novel <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<\/a>, according to a notification. A complete, six-day lockdown, imposed by the hilly state, was scheduled to end on Sunday. <br \/> &#8220;After careful consideration of the situation, it has been decided to extend the period of lockdown in the entire state of <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/sikkim\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/sikkim\" frmappuse=\"1\">Sikkim<\/a> till 6 am of August 1, 2020,&#8221; a notification issued by Chief Secretary S C Gupta said. <br \/> The state reported its <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/first-Covid-19-death\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" data-ga=\"within_article-topic_link|topic_first-Covid-19-death\" frmappuse=\"1\">first Covid-19 death<\/a> on Sunday after a 74-year-old man succumbed to the disease at a state-run hospital here, the official said. <br \/> Sikkim has 357 active cases of Covid-19, while the total cases stand at 499, a senior health official said. <br \/> As many as 142 people have recovered from the disease. <\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/sikkim-extends-coronavirus-lockdown-till-august-1\/articleshow\/77181017.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GANGTOK: The Sikkim government has extended the statewide lockdown till August 1 to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, according to a notification. A complete, six-day lockdown, imposed by the hilly state, was scheduled to end on Sunday. &#8220;After careful consideration of the situation, it has been decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1595760910_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","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=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}