{"id":96615,"date":"2020-03-16T02:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=96615"},"modified":"2020-03-16T02:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T21:18:07","slug":"health-dept-issues-advisory-on-avoiding-postponing-mass-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/16\/health-dept-issues-advisory-on-avoiding-postponing-mass-gatherings\/","title":{"rendered":"Health dept issues advisory on avoiding, postponing mass gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Mar 15:<\/strong> The health department has issued an advisory to the public to avoid or postpone mass gatherings, if possible.<br \/>\n&#8220;In addition to hand and respiratory hygiene, experts across the world have advised to reduce mass gatherings to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19). In view of the above, it is advised that mass gatherings may be avoided or possibly be postponed if possible,&#8221; a press statement from the health department read.<br \/>\nTill date, no Covid-19 cases have been detected in Arunachal.<br \/>\nOn Sunday, eight passengers who arrived at the airport in East Siang HQ Pasighat were screened with non-contact infra-red thermometer for temperature monitoring.<br \/>\nThe health department said all eight passengers were found to be afebrile (not feverish).<br \/>\nA total of 450 railway passengers and 42 passengers at the helipad here have been screened upto now.<br \/>\nAs per reports received by the government of India, 23 people from Arunachal returned from Covid-19 affected countries. However, seven of them were later found to be from other states as their addresses had been entered incorrectly.<br \/>\nCurrently, three people are in home quarantine here, and are under observation.<br \/>\nThe state&#8217;s helpline number for queries related to Covid-19 is 9436055743.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Assam government issued a notification on Sunday to close down all schools, colleges, universities, gyms, swimming pools, and cinema halls in the state till 29 March amid the Covid-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nAll examinations, except that of the state board and the CBSE, have also been postponed.<br \/>\nThe Covid-19 helpline number for Assam is 6913347770.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Mar 15: The health department has issued an advisory to the public to avoid or postpone mass gatherings, if possible. &#8220;In addition to hand and respiratory hygiene, experts across the world have advised to reduce mass gatherings to avoid the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19). In view of the above, it is [&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-96615","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\/96615","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=96615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}