{"id":86313,"date":"2020-04-29T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=86313"},"modified":"2020-08-29T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T05:36:34","slug":"west-bengal-extend-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/west-bengal-extend-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal to extend guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong>West Bengal, chief minister Mamata Banerjee<\/strong> has said restrictions would be strictly implemented in every red zone of the state while some movement would be allowed in orange zones. Similarly if an area which is now an orange zone, shows an increase in the prevalence of the disease and enters the red zone, the restrictions will be made stiffer, and vice versa. There will be more relaxations given in the green zones, but the areas will be placed under stiffer restrictions if more positive cases are detected putting them under orange or red zone categories,&#8221; she said. The Chief Minister announced formation of a cabinet committee on <strong>Covid management<\/strong>, chaired by Finance and <strong>Industries Minister Amit Mitra<\/strong>. The <strong>Chief Secretary, the Health Secretary<\/strong>, and the Home Secretary will be among the committee members. Banerjee said her government was discussing on resuming more activities in rural areas which come under the green zone. She announced that home delivery companies, which were so long allowed to ferry only essential goods, would now be permitted to deliver non-essential items also. &#8220;We have to think of giving relaxations that won&#8217;t harm the people,&#8221; she said. She said though relaxations have been given on 100 days&#8217;s job guarantee scheme, the problem was in getting labourers. The Chief Minister appealed to the centre to ensure international borders were closed, and not not allow domestic and international flights, and train services till the situation normalises. Inter-state bus services or travel also should not be allowed, except for emergencies. Meanwhile, State <strong>BJP chief Dilip Ghosh<\/strong> has questioned the formation of a cabinet committee on <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> at such a late stage. &#8220;Why didn&#8217;t she form a panel before? What took her so long? Why did she keep these ministers idle all this while, and made it a solo show! Mr Ghosh said. The <strong>BJP leader<\/strong> also alleged the CM was indulging in politics at this hour of crisis by suppressing the actual <strong>COVID-19 death figure<\/strong>. Dead bodies are being secretly burnt by police at night in different areas over the last several days. This has also triggered protests by local people who are understandably scared, Ghosh alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In West Bengal, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has said restrictions would be strictly implemented in every red zone of the state while some movement would be allowed in orange zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[86,1711,92435,96070,96069],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Mamta.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86313"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=86313"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=86313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->