{"id":126048,"date":"2020-05-25T02:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=126048"},"modified":"2020-05-25T02:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T20:45:55","slug":"one-asymptomatic-returnee-from-delhi-tests-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/25\/one-asymptomatic-returnee-from-delhi-tests-covid-19-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"One asymptomatic returnee from Delhi tests Covid-19 positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, May 24:<\/strong> A person who recently returned to Arunachal Pradesh from Delhi has tested Covid-19 positive.<br \/>\nThe positive sample was detected at the RT-PCR lab in Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences on late Sunday afternoon.<br \/>\nThe person who was in a state quarantine facility is asymptomatic, but has been taken to a Covid-19 care centre after his result came positive on Sunday.<br \/>\nThe person had returned from Delhi on 18 May.<br \/>\n&#8220;The patient is asymptomatic and is being taken care by a health team,&#8221; Health Secretary P Parthiban said.<br \/>\n&#8220;State and district level contact tracing teams have started to track down all those people who came in the bus along with the positive patient and have interacted with him,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nSixty one other passengers had travelled from Delhi in two buses and had reached Arunachal on 18 May.<br \/>\nOf the 61, while one has tested positive, 31 tested negative; results of 26 are awaited and three are yet to be tested, according to the daily Covid-19 bulletin issued by the health department.<br \/>\nThere were 33 people in the same bus that travelled from Delhi to Arunachal via Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam, the health department informed.<br \/>\nIDSP State Surveillance Officer Dr L Jampa said that &#8220;none of the people have shown any symptoms.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe further said, &#8220;In the light of the current scenario of Covid-19 in the country, it is sincerely urged upon the people of our state to cooperate in fighting collectively against the ailment and not the ailing&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, May 24: A person who recently returned to Arunachal Pradesh from Delhi has tested Covid-19 positive. The positive sample was detected at the RT-PCR lab in Tomo Riba Institute of Health and Medical Sciences on late Sunday afternoon. The person who was in a state quarantine facility is asymptomatic, but has been [&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-126048","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\/126048","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=126048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}