{"id":94407,"date":"2020-03-27T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/lockdown-declared-in-kabul-amid-fears-of-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:09:32","slug":"lockdown-declared-in-kabul-amid-fears-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/lockdown-declared-in-kabul-amid-fears-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown declared in Kabul amid fears of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/March\/27\/Capture.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The government on Friday declared lock down in the capital, Kabul amid fears of the corona virus.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the details of the move, Waheed Umer, director general, office of public and strategic affairs, said the move has been approved by the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>As per the move, all public and private offices, markets &ndash; with exception of essential supplies, would remain closed until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Officials warned spread of the virus in the capital city of over five million due to its central location as central point for commuters from all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>Health minister Ferozuddin Feroz warned the situation could get out of hands if people did not took the threat seriously.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The government on Friday declared lock down in the capital, Kabul amid fears of the corona virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}