{"id":131335,"date":"2020-07-12T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=131335"},"modified":"2020-07-12T03:22:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T21:52:41","slug":"dhs-covid-19ve-person-was-assigned-thermal-scanning-duty-without-ppe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/12\/dhs-covid-19ve-person-was-assigned-thermal-scanning-duty-without-ppe\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS Covid-19+ve person was assigned thermal scanning duty without PPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>All staffers to be tested<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>NAHARLAGUN, Jul 11:<\/strong> A day after a Covid-19 positive case was detected at the directorate of health services (DHS) here, it has been reported that the person is a nurse who had been assigned the task of thermal scanning all entrants to the office.<br \/>\nSources said that the nurse is not a staffer of the DHS but had been engaged in thermal-scanning officials and visitors, apart from providing masks and sanitizers to entrants.<br \/>\nVisitors noted that the nurse had been following all hygiene and physical distancing measures properly while on duty. However, she was not seen with full personal protective equipment (PPE) on.<br \/>\nAs per health officials, she was on roster duty every third day. She was last seen on duty on 6 July by those who visited the directorate office.<br \/>\n&#8220;The nurse had fever on 7 July and went for a test on the 8th, which came out positive,&#8221; a health official said.<br \/>\nThe DHS office has been sanitized with disinfectant, and the health department will test all staffers on Monday. Till then, they have all been advised home quarantine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All staffers to be tested Staff Reporter NAHARLAGUN, Jul 11: A day after a Covid-19 positive case was detected at the directorate of health services (DHS) here, it has been reported that the person is a nurse who had been assigned the task of thermal scanning all entrants to the office. Sources said that the [&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-131335","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\/131335","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=131335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}