{"id":169583,"date":"2021-08-19T01:33:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=169583"},"modified":"2021-08-19T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T20:05:00","slug":"two-more-succumb-to-covid-19-states-death-toll-at-254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/19\/two-more-succumb-to-covid-19-states-death-toll-at-254\/","title":{"rendered":"Two more succumb to Covid-19, state&#8217;s death toll at 254"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 18 Aug:<\/strong>\u00a0 Two more Covid-19 related deaths were reported in the state on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 254. Both deaths were registered on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As per the DHS report, a 65-year-old male patient with comorbidity from Changlang has died of Covid-19 complications at DCHC Namsai at 11:20 pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The patient complained of fever with lethargy from 2 August and had tested Covid-19 positive through TrueNat at Lathao PHC under district hospital Namsai on 17 August.\u00a0 He was admitted to DCHC Namsai on the same day. The patient&#8217;s vaccination status is nil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another 40-year-old male patient with comorbidity from Namsai has died of Covid-19 complications at the Covid care center in AMC, Dibrugarh, Assam at 5:35 am on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The patient complained of fever and swelling of body from 4 August and had tested Covid-19 positive through RT-PCR at AMC, Dibrugarh, Assam on 11 August.\u00a0 He was admitted to Covid care center AMC, Dibrugarh in Assam on the same day. The patient&#8217;s vaccination status is also nil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the state reported 144 new Covid-19 cases on Wednesday of whom 73 cases are symptomatic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Capital Complex detected the highest 29 Covid-19 cases, followed by 24 cases in Papum Pare and 18 cases in Lower Subansiri.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With 32.1 percent, Upper Siang reported the highest positivity rate in the state. Capital Complex reported a positivity rate of 3.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also, on Wednesday, a total of 220 patients from various health facilities across the state were declared recovered or discharged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Currently, DCH Chimpu has 34 patients and DCH Pasighat has three patients, while SQF Lekhi has eight occupants <a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Health-Bulletin-18th-Aug-2021.pdf\"><strong>(see full bulletin)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 18 Aug:\u00a0 Two more Covid-19 related deaths were reported in the state on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 254. Both deaths were registered on Tuesday. As per the DHS report, a 65-year-old male patient with comorbidity from Changlang has died of Covid-19 complications at DCHC Namsai at 11:20 pm on Tuesday. The patient [&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-169583","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\/169583","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=169583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}