{"id":16897,"date":"2020-07-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/07\/15\/mass-prayer-in-bali-as-island-prepares-to-reopen-to-tourists\/"},"modified":"2020-07-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T12:00:00","slug":"mass-prayer-in-bali-as-island-prepares-to-reopen-to-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2020\/07\/15\/mass-prayer-in-bali-as-island-prepares-to-reopen-to-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Prayer in Bali as Island Prepares to Reopen to Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/bali-coronavirus-mass-prayer-reopen-tourists-indonesia-a9602441.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/thumbnails\/image\/2020\/07\/05\/14\/pri156711818.jpg?w968\" style=\"max-width:100%;object-fit:scale-down;\" \/><br \/>BALI, INDONESIA, July 6, 2020 (Independent): Bali has held mass prayers as the Indonesian resort island prepares to reopen to tourists who have been shut out due to the coronavirus pandemic. More than a thousand people attended a prayer at Besakih Hindu temple in the town of Karangasem, expressing gratitude for the handling of Covid-19 on the island and seeking blessings for the start of a &#8220;new normal.&#8221; Bali has reported around 1,850 coronavirus infections and 20 deaths so far, while Indonesia as a whole has recorded more than 63,700 cases and 3,171 deaths since early March.<\/p>\n<p>The idyllic southeast Asian island will gradually reopen this month for domestic tourists, while maintaining a &#8220;strict health protocol&#8221; to prevent the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19, according to Bali provincial secretary Dewa Made Indra. The local government expects to reopen the island to foreign arrivals in September. Tourism is Bali&#8217;s main source of income and travel restrictions due to the pandemic have hammered the local economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BALI, INDONESIA, July 6, 2020 (Independent): Bali has held mass prayers as the Indonesian resort island prepares to reopen,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}