{"id":159679,"date":"2021-05-29T01:48:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=159679"},"modified":"2021-05-29T01:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T20:18:37","slug":"hidden-covid-cases-biggest-threat-dmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/05\/29\/hidden-covid-cases-biggest-threat-dmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Covid cases biggest threat: DMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 28 May:<\/strong> Papum Pare District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr K Perme has termed the hidden cases of Covid-19 the biggest threat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Briefing the press here on Friday, he said he has received reports of people with Covid symptoms not coming forward to get tested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Some people don&#8217;t come forward for tests despite showing symptoms. They are the potential super-spreaders. This is the reason we declared the entire Sagalee town as a containment zone,&#8221; said Dr Perme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides Sagalee, the entire Kimin town has also been declared as a micro-containment zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DMO also said that contact tracing is being scaled up in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are also seeking assistance from the ASHAs to improve the contact tracing in the district,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further announced that soon random testing will be done in Doimukh town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 28 May: Papum Pare District Medical Officer (DMO) Dr K Perme has termed the hidden cases of Covid-19 the biggest threat. Briefing the press here on Friday, he said he has received reports of people with Covid symptoms not coming forward to get tested. &#8220;Some people don&#8217;t come forward for tests despite showing symptoms. [&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-159679","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\/159679","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=159679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}