{"id":168801,"date":"2021-08-10T02:34:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=168801"},"modified":"2021-08-10T02:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:09:58","slug":"4-more-succumb-to-covid-death-toll-at-246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/10\/4-more-succumb-to-covid-death-toll-at-246\/","title":{"rendered":"4 more succumb to Covid, death toll at 246"},"content":{"rendered":"

ITANAGAR, 9 Aug:<\/strong> The state reported four Covid-19 deaths on Monday, including three who died on Sunday. With this, the state’s death toll stands at 246.<\/p>\n

A 65-year-old man from Lohit with comorbidity had symptoms of headache and fever on 4 August and had tested Covid-19 positive through RAT at the zonal hospital in Tezu on the same day. He was referred to the AMCH in Dibrugarh (Assam) on 7 August, where he passed away on 9 August at around 4 am due to Covid pneumonia and cardio-respiratory failure.<\/p>\n

He was unvaccinated.<\/p>\n

A comorbid 30-year-old woman from West Kameng, with symptoms of sore throat, had tested positive for Covid-19 through RAT at the Rupa CHC on 3 August. She was admitted to the district Covid health centre (DCHC) in Bomdila on 6 August and was referred to the dedicated Covid hospital (DCH) in Chimpu on 7 August. She passed away at the DCH at around 4:30 am due to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with Covid pneumonia.<\/p>\n

She had taken her first dose of the Covid vaccine.<\/p>\n

In the Itanagar capital region (ICR), a 54-year-old man with comorbidity had complaints of cough, fever and breathing problems. He tested positive through RAT on Sunday at Tomo Riba Institute of Health & Medical Sciences, Naharlagun, and was admitted to the DCH in Chimpu at around 9 am. However, he passed away on the same day at around 3:30 pm due to ARDS with Covid pneumonia at the DCH.<\/p>\n

He had been vaccinated with the first dose of the Covid vaccine.<\/p>\n

Another man with comorbidity from the ICR, aged 60 years, had complaints of cough and breathing problem since 1 August.<\/p>\n

He had tested negative through RAT but his chest’s CT scan suggested Covid pneumonia. He was admitted to the DCH in Chimpu but passed away on 8 August at around 5:40 pm due to ARDS with Covid pneumonia.<\/p>\n

He had taken his first Covid vaccine dose.<\/p>\n

The state reported 302 cases of Covid-19 on Monday, of whom 132 are symptomatic. The ICR recorded the highest 78 cases, followed by 35 cases in Lower Subansiri and 26 cases each in Papum Pare and Tawang.<\/p>\n

With 19.2 percent, Kamle reported the highest positivity rate. The ICR has a positivity rate of 8.9 percent.<\/p>\n

Also, 372 people in various health facilities and home isolation were declared discharged or recovered on the day.<\/p>\n

A total of 5,483 samples were collected on Monday. (See bulletin)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ITANAGAR, 9 Aug: The state reported four Covid-19 deaths on Monday, including three who died on Sunday. With this, the state’s death toll stands at 246. A 65-year-old man from Lohit with comorbidity had symptoms of headache and fever on 4 August and had tested Covid-19 positive through RAT at the zonal hospital in Tezu […]<\/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-168801","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\/168801","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=168801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}