{"id":1435,"date":"2020-03-18T15:34:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2020-03-18T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T10:04:37","slug":"mata-vaishno-devi-shrine-board-steps-up-preparedness-to-combat-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Mata Vaishno Devi shrine board steps up preparedness to combat COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) , Mar 17 : The Mata Vaishno Devi shrine board has stepped up its preparedness to prevent the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins>The board is conducting thermal screening at several points, the board&#8217;s manager Rajesh Sharma said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are using a thermal scanner to screen people on the way to the bhawan and we are sanitising the railings four to five times a day,&#8221; Sharma told ANI.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The board has distributed the pamphlets and making announcements about the measures to control the spread.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the pilgrims are appreciating the efforts of the board.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is good that measures to tackle the disease have been taken and many facilities have been provided in view of the COVID-19. It is good,&#8221; a pilgrim, Saurab Kumara said.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The board had on March 15 issued an advisory to NRIs and foreigners to not visit the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine for 28 days after landing in India as a precautionary measure. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/mata-vaishno-devi-shrine-board-steps-up-preparedness-to-combat-covid-1920200317001335\/\">(ANI<\/a>) <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image source: YouTube<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) , Mar 17 : The Mata Vaishno Devi shrine board has stepped up its preparedness to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The board is conducting thermal screening at several points, the board&#8217;s manager Rajesh Sharma said on Monday. &#8220;We are using a thermal scanner to screen people on the way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":1436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[129,320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}