{"id":100535,"date":"2020-04-22T03:03:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=100535"},"modified":"2020-04-22T03:03:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T21:33:19","slug":"citizens-urged-to-strictly-follow-advisories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/22\/citizens-urged-to-strictly-follow-advisories\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens urged to strictly follow advisories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 21:<\/strong> The health department has appealed to the people of the state to strictly follow the Covid-19 advisories issued from time to time.<br \/>\nInforming that Covid-19 spreads through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks, Health Director, Dr M Lego, advised all to maintain physical distancing, wear facemasks while stepping out of homes, and maintain a high degree of personal hygiene.<br \/>\nHe advised the people to properly dispose of facemasks, and wash hands with soap and water frequently, following the prescribed techniques.<br \/>\n&#8220;People can also be infected by touching a contaminated surface and then their eyes, mouth or nose,&#8221; Dr Lego said, emphasizing the need of proper hand-washing.<br \/>\nInforming that the state has zero active case as of now after the lone patient recovered, he said &#8220;the time has come to adopt a healthy lifestyle to prevent community transmission of the disease in Arunachal.&#8221;<br \/>\nAdvising the people to &#8220;take up preventive measures and isolation strategies to check the velocity at which the disease is spreading,&#8221; Dr Lego said any information relating to Covid-19 may be obtained from the health services director and the state surveillance officer (IDSP) at the state level, and the DCs and the DMOs at the district level.<br \/>\nInformation is also being disseminated through radio talks, panel discussions on Doordarshan, public announcement, hoardings, banners, leaflets, and such.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Apr 21: The health department has appealed to the people of the state to strictly follow the Covid-19 advisories issued from time to time. Informing that Covid-19 spreads through respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes or speaks, Health Director, Dr M Lego, advised all to maintain physical distancing, wear facemasks while stepping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-100535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}