{"id":130077,"date":"2020-07-01T02:03:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=130077"},"modified":"2020-07-01T02:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T20:33:59","slug":"aapsu-for-brief-lockdown-in-icr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/01\/aapsu-for-brief-lockdown-in-icr\/","title":{"rendered":"AAPSU for brief lockdown in ICR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Jun 30:<\/strong> The All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union (AAPSU) has demanded that the Itanagar capital region (ICR) deputy commissioner immediately impose three to seven days&#8217; lockdown in the ICR to stop possible transmission of Covid-19 at the community level.<br \/>\nAn AAPSU team led by its president Hawa Bagang and general secretary Tobom Dai placed the demand before the DC on Tuesday after two frontline workers tested positive for Covid-19 at the quarantine centre in Lekhi.<br \/>\nThe AAPSU said the lockdown would facilitate contact-tracing of first and second contacts, as well as break the possible chain of community transmission in the capital region.<br \/>\nThe union urged the state government and the ICR administration to take a decision on its demand &#8220;immediately or by Wednesday, if the test results of all the primary and secondary contacts come out positive.<br \/>\n&#8220;Otherwise, we will be compelled to declare capital lockdown for safety and security of the people of the state,&#8221; the union said.<br \/>\nIt also expressed serious concern over people not following the Covid-19 preventive measures amid rising cases. &#8220;Many people can be seen defying social distancing norms and venturing out without wearing facemasks,&#8221; it said.<br \/>\nThe AAPSU also demanded that the DA provide board and lodging to the health and other frontline workers stationed at quarantine centres.<br \/>\n&#8220;Many officials and workers are doing duty at quarantine centres commuting from homes, which is directly or indirectly putting their families at risk,&#8221; the union said. &#8220;All such officials and frontline workers should be properly tested before they are relieved from duty.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe union also urged the health department and the district administrations across the state to look into the matter seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jun 30: The All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union (AAPSU) has demanded that the Itanagar capital region (ICR) deputy commissioner immediately impose three to seven days&#8217; lockdown in the ICR to stop possible transmission of Covid-19 at the community level. An AAPSU team led by its president Hawa Bagang and general secretary Tobom Dai placed [&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-130077","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\/130077","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=130077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}