{"id":980,"date":"2020-03-14T18:43:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-global-press.pantheonsite.io\/?p=980"},"modified":"2020-03-14T18:43:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T13:13:14","slug":"andhra-pradesh-focuses-on-italy-returnees-ensures-no-entry-for-nris-foreigners-in-tirupati-corona-virus-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh Focuses on Italy returnees, ensures no entry for NRIs, Foreigners In Tirupati"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">\u201cTirumala is always abuzz with pilgrim activity and the chances of coronavirus spreading here are more, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/national\/south\/no-entry-for-nris-foreigners-into-tirupati-for-coronavirus-scare-andhra-pradesh-focuses-on-italy-returnees-812621.html\">Deccan Herald<\/a> has reported. <\/p>\n\n\n<p> TTD, the temple board that manages the most popular and richest Hindu temple in the world, has earlier requested&nbsp;the domestic devotees to reschedule their pilgrimage if they are suffering from cough, cold or fever. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Andhra Pradesh, where Tirupati is located, is the only south Indian state with no recorded case of positive COVID-19 till now. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>\u201cTirumala is always abuzz with pilgrim activity and the chances of coronavirus spreading here are more.&nbsp;So,&nbsp;keeping in view the health safety of lakhs of pilgrims, TTD has made an appeal to devotees who are coming from other countries to restrain themselves from visiting Tirumala for four weeks,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/national\/south\/no-entry-for-nris-foreigners-into-tirupati-for-coronavirus-scare-andhra-pradesh-focuses-on-italy-returnees-812621.html\">TTD Official said.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Special task force teams with thermal guns and medical equipment are deployed at Alipiri and Srivari Mettu footpath routes to the temple, to detect if any pilgrim has symptoms of fever, cough and cold.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-very-light-gray-background-color\">Image Source: Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTirumala is always abuzz with pilgrim activity and the chances of coronavirus spreading here are more, Deccan Herald has reported. TTD, the temple board that manages the most popular and richest Hindu temple in the world, has earlier requested&nbsp;the domestic devotees to reschedule their pilgrimage if they are suffering from cough, cold or fever. Andhra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20,159,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980"}],"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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}