{"id":126457,"date":"2020-05-29T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T19:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=126457"},"modified":"2020-05-29T11:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:08:41","slug":"chennai-returnee-tests-covid-19-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/05\/29\/chennai-returnee-tests-covid-19-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Chennai returnee tests Covid-19 positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[Staff Reporter]<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, May 28:<\/strong> Another person was detected positive for Covid-19 late Wednesday night. The person is asymptomatic and reported to be doing well.<br \/>\nThe Covid-19 positive person is reportedly an 18-year-old male, who returned to the state from Chennai on Saturday on the Chennai-Dibrugarh special train, arranged by the government for stranded people from the North East.<br \/>\nSources in the medical department said the report came late Wednesday night from the TRIHMS, prompting the activation of the district level incidental response team.<br \/>\nThe young man was reportedly staying in paid quarantine along with two other friends. The two have tested negative for Covid-19<br \/>\n&#8220;While the samples of the two others have tested negative, all three have been shifted to a Covid care centre. They have been kept separately at the Covid care centre,&#8221; health department officials informed.<br \/>\nUpdating on the state Covid situation, Health and Family Welfare Minister Alo Libang said, &#8220;The person who tested positive is asymptomatic and doing fine.&#8221;<br \/>\nLibang further appealed to the people of Arunachal to abide by the safety measures to contain Covid-19.<br \/>\n&#8220;Cooperation from the public is the need of hour to contain the disease,&#8221; he said while appealing to the people to strictly follow all safety measures.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong>Disclaimer:<\/strong> we have updated this news as the detection of the COVID-19 case was done in TRIHMS and not RMRC, Dibrugarh as reported earlier.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/BULLETIN-ON-COVID-19-FOR-ARUNACHAL-PRADESH.pdf\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">(BULLETIN ON COVID-19 FOR ARUNACHAL PRADESH)<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Staff Reporter] ITANAGAR, May 28: Another person was detected positive for Covid-19 late Wednesday night. The person is asymptomatic and reported to be doing well. The Covid-19 positive person is reportedly an 18-year-old male, who returned to the state from Chennai on Saturday on the Chennai-Dibrugarh special train, arranged by the government for stranded people [&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-126457","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\/126457","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=126457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}