{"id":139636,"date":"2020-10-14T02:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=139636"},"modified":"2020-10-14T02:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T20:42:52","slug":"ex-min-medi-ram-dodum-tests-covid-19ve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/ex-min-medi-ram-dodum-tests-covid-19ve\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-min Medi Ram Dodum tests Covid-19+ve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Oct 13:<\/strong> Former cabinet minister Medi Ram Dodum has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently being administered medical treatment at the dedicated Covid hospital (DCH) in Chimpu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He tested positive after taking an RT-PCR test on Monday evening, and was admitted the same day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 65-year-old has other underlying medical conditions for which he had initially sought treatment. Following the advice of Dr Tojum Pakam, he underwent an RT-PCR test, which returned a positive result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dodum has appealed to people who have come in contact with him recently to self-isolate and get tested for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking from the ward at the DCH, the former horticulture minister said that senior citizens like him with comorbidity need special care since they fall under the at-risk demographic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We require more medical attention since we are more vulnerable to the disease,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Oct 13: Former cabinet minister Medi Ram Dodum has tested positive for Covid-19 and is currently being administered medical treatment at the dedicated Covid hospital (DCH) in Chimpu. He tested positive after taking an RT-PCR test on Monday evening, and was admitted the same day. The 65-year-old has other underlying medical conditions for which [&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-139636","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\/139636","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=139636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}