{"id":168536,"date":"2021-08-07T02:01:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=168536"},"modified":"2021-08-07T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T20:32:14","slug":"one-covid-death-on-friday-death-toll-at-237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/07\/one-covid-death-on-friday-death-toll-at-237\/","title":{"rendered":"One Covid death on Friday, death toll at 237"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 6 Aug:<\/strong> The state reported one Covid-19 death on Friday, taking the state&#8217;s death toll to 237.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 43-year-old man from Lohit with comorbidity had symptoms of fever, cough, general weakness and breathing problems since 26 July. He tested positive for Covid-19 through RAT at the zonal hospital in Tezu on 29 July and was admitted to the district Covid health centre (DCHC) on the same day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, he passed away on Friday at around 6.50 am at the DCHC due to Covid pneumonia. He was unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the state reported 227 Covid-19 positive cases on Friday, of whom 86 are symptomatic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Itanagar capital region recorded the highest 53 cases, followed by 44 cases in Lower Subansiri and 24 Covid cases in Lohit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lohit also recorded the highest positivity rate on the day with 18.8 percent. ICR recorded a positivity rate of seven percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the day, 420 people across the state in various health facilities and home isolation were declared recovered or discharged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A total of 4,847 samples were collected on the day <a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Health-Bulletin-6th-Aug-2021.pdf\"><strong>(See bulletin)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 6 Aug: The state reported one Covid-19 death on Friday, taking the state&#8217;s death toll to 237. The 43-year-old man from Lohit with comorbidity had symptoms of fever, cough, general weakness and breathing problems since 26 July. He tested positive for Covid-19 through RAT at the zonal hospital in Tezu on 29 July and [&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-168536","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\/168536","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=168536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}