{"id":165186,"date":"2021-07-03T02:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T20:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=165186"},"modified":"2021-07-03T02:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T20:46:04","slug":"arunachal-reports-new-high-in-covid-cases-centre-dispatches-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/03\/arunachal-reports-new-high-in-covid-cases-centre-dispatches-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal reports new high in Covid cases, Centre dispatches team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 2 Jul:<\/strong> The state on Friday reported a record 404 fresh Covid-19 cases in weeks even as numbers are decreasing nationwide. A similar number was reported in 5 June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of the total cases reported on Friday, 182 are symptomatic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ICR reported the highest 86 Covid-19 cases, followed by 64 cases in West Kameng and 30 cases in Tawang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With 26 percent, Longding reported the highest positivity rate in the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 223 patients in various health facilities across the state were declared recovered or discharged on the same day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 5,950 samples were collected from the entire state on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, the DCH in Chimpu has 49 patients, the DCHC in Midpu has one and the DCH in Pasighat has eight patients. The SQF in Lekhi has 22 occupants <a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Health-Bulletin-02.07.2021.pdf\"><strong>(see full bulletin).<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Centre on Friday deputed multi-disciplinary teams to Arunachal and five other states in view of the high number of cases being reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other states are Kerala, Tripura, Odisha, Chhattisgarh and Manipur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The teams will be supporting the states in their efforts to carry out targeted Covid response and management and effectively tackle the pandemic, a union health ministry statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-member high level team to these states comprises a clinician and a public health expert, the statement said. The teams will visit the states immediately and monitor the overall implementation of Covid-19 management, especially in testing, including surveillance and containment operations; Covid-appropriate behaviour and its enforcement; availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics including ambulances, ventilators, medical oxygen, etc, and Covid-19 vaccination progress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The teams will monitor the situation and also suggest remedial actions, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central teams will assess the situation and suggest remedial actions on public health activities to the respective state governments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0 team to Arunachal will be led by AIIH&amp;PH\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Professor Dr Sanjay Sad-hukhan. 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The ICR reported the highest 86 Covid-19 cases, followed by 64 cases in West Kameng [&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-165186","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\/165186","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=165186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}