{"id":163706,"date":"2021-06-17T01:49:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=163706"},"modified":"2021-06-17T01:49:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T20:19:24","slug":"67907-vaccinated-in-icr-till-tuesday-dmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/06\/17\/67907-vaccinated-in-icr-till-tuesday-dmo\/","title":{"rendered":"67,907 vaccinated in ICR till Tuesday: DMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 16 Jun:<\/strong> Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) District Medical Officer Dr Mandip Perme informed that till Tuesday, 67,907 people had been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the ICR.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Briefing the press here on Wednesday evening, the DMO said that 60,264 have taken the first dose and 7,643 have taken their second dose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the number of people getting the second dose is comparatively low due to the lengthy gap introduced by the health ministry in between two doses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Vaccination is going on in the proper way in the ICR. There is enough stock, and whenever we run out of stock, the government makes vaccines available,&#8221; said Dr Perme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the vaccination of those in the 18 to 44 years age category, he said that 22,566 people had taken the vaccination till Tuesday in this category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, the DMO said that the Covid-19 situation is under control for now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Daily we are testing above 1,000 people. The positivity rate is around 5 percent. So far, the situation is under control. I appeal to the people to continue to wear masks and maintain Covid-appropriate behaviour,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DMO urged the citizens to go for tests and seek medical help at the first instance of exhibition of symptoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It has been observed that people delay in seeking medical attention till they face major trouble like breathlessness. This is causing major trouble,&#8221; added Dr Perme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 16 Jun: Itanagar Capital Region (ICR) District Medical Officer Dr Mandip Perme informed that till Tuesday, 67,907 people had been vaccinated against Covid-19 in the ICR. Briefing the press here on Wednesday evening, the DMO said that 60,264 have taken the first dose and 7,643 have taken their second dose. He said the number [&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-163706","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\/163706","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=163706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}