{"id":158183,"date":"2021-05-12T01:41:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=158183"},"modified":"2021-05-12T01:41:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T20:11:59","slug":"children-staffers-of-cci-test-covid-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/12\/children-staffers-of-cci-test-covid-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Children, staffers of CCI test Covid positive"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ Karyir Riba ]<\/strong><\/p>\n

ROING, 11 May:<\/strong> Eleven children and staffers of the child care institute (CCI) here in Lower Dibang Valley district, including the CCI’s chairperson and her 12-year-old daughter, have tested positive for the coronavirus and are under home isolation for the last five days.<\/p>\n

CCI chairperson Desai Linggi informed that everyone’s condition is stable, and that they are getting regular medical attention from healthcare workers.<\/p>\n

Linggi herself had returned from Delhi on 23 April, where she had had a surgery. Despite testing negative at the Dibrugarh airport, she isolated herself on her return in one of the empty buildings in the CCI campus.<\/p>\n

After suffering from fever, dizziness and nausea, she got a retest done on 26 April and tested positive.<\/p>\n

Then, on 6 May, the watchman of the CCI campus tested positive, and on 7 May, two staffers and six children of the CCI and Linggi’s daughter tested positive.<\/p>\n

“These children had complained about fever. At first we thought it was a simple viral fever as there was no outside contact. However, we segregated them from the others as a precautionary measure. On the next day, we got them tested and they were positive. We still do not know the source of the virus,” Linggi said.<\/p>\n

Linggi urged all other CCIs and similar facilities to be aware and segregate any child as soon as any symptom occurs, and to get the child tested for Covid-19. “No staffer should be allowed to come from outside, and no one should be allowed to make any kind of contact with any outsider,” she said.<\/p>\n

The CCI is run by the Nani Maria Society, and it caters to the whole eastern region of the state. It is dedicated to destitute, runaway, abandoned and orphaned children.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the district recorded 16 positive cases out of 193 samples collected on Tuesday. Thirteen of them are symptomatic.<\/p>\n

Twenty-three people recovered on Tuesday, and there are 210 active cases in the district as of now.<\/p>\n

The positivity rate has increased to 8.2 percent from 6.7 percent on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ Karyir Riba ] ROING, 11 May: Eleven children and staffers of the child care institute (CCI) here in Lower Dibang Valley district, including the CCI’s chairperson and her 12-year-old daughter, have tested positive for the coronavirus and are under home isolation for the last five days. CCI chairperson Desai Linggi informed that everyone’s condition […]<\/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-158183","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\/158183","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=158183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}