{"id":132165,"date":"2020-07-21T02:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=132165"},"modified":"2020-07-21T02:56:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T21:26:39","slug":"state-stands-with-over-500-active-covid_19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/07\/21\/state-stands-with-over-500-active-covid_19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"State stands with over 500 active Covid-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jul 20:<\/strong> After the detection of 50 new Covid-19 positive cases in the state, Arunachal currently has 502 active cases as of Monday.<br \/>\nOf these, six are symptomatic and 44 are asymptomatic.<br \/>\nA total of 34 new cases were detected in the Itanagar capital region (ICR) on Monday, including six cases at the Naharlagun police station.<br \/>\nTwenty-one cases were detected through tests done by the rapid response teams, 11 were detected through RT-PCR tests, and two were found in paid quarantine centres in Itanagar.<br \/>\nApart from the six positive cases detected at the Naharlagun police station, the 11 cases detected through RT-PCR tests include two cases each in the Gyadi Medical establishment and Polo Colony, and one in Lekhi village.<br \/>\nEarlier in the day, ICR DC Komkar Dulom informed the press that the contact tracing team in Naharlagun conducted antigen tests on 266 people and 18 tested positive.<br \/>\n&#8220;In Upper and Lower Police Colonies, out of 17 people tested, one tested positive for Covid-19. In B Sector, of the 16 tests, all came negative; near the Hotel Rajhans, out of four people, two tested positive; in D Sector Extension and G Extension, 17 and 14 tested negative. Also, 15 people tested positive out of the 198 tests conducted under the guidance of the Arunachal Chamber of Commerce members (in Dokum Colony),&#8221; informed the DC.<br \/>\nIn Itanagar, he said, tests were conducted at Chimpu and Jullang Tinali by a contact tracing team.<br \/>\n&#8220;Seventeen people were tested in both the locations and three of them tested positive,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nAltogether 283 tests were conducted in the ICR.<br \/>\nIn the districts, nine military personnel and one driver engaged in healthcare service tested positive in quarantine facilities (QF) in Tawang, as per the daily Covid bulletin.<br \/>\nLower Subansiri reported five new cases, among whom one is a primary contact of a positive case detected earlier in QF, and four are returnees.<br \/>\nWest Siang reported one positive case in QF.<br \/>\nThree people in Lower Subansiri have recovered.<br \/>\nThe state&#8217;s total of Covid-19 positive cases is 790. The number of recovered people is 285, and three deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Jul 20: After the detection of 50 new Covid-19 positive cases in the state, Arunachal currently has 502 active cases as of Monday. Of these, six are symptomatic and 44 are asymptomatic. A total of 34 new cases were detected in the Itanagar capital region (ICR) on Monday, including six cases at [&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-132165","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\/132165","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=132165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}