{"id":98680,"date":"2020-04-04T03:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=98680"},"modified":"2020-04-04T03:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T21:33:38","slug":"family-members-of-covid-19ve-patient-test-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/04\/family-members-of-covid-19ve-patient-test-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Family members of Covid-19+ve patient test negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 3:<\/strong> The family members of the first Covid-19 positive patient in the state have tested negative for the virus. The patient&#8217;s parents, brother, and sister-in-law will be retested soon.<br \/>\nThe patient, a 31-year-old migrant labourer, is asymptomatic and is in the isolation ward of the zonal hospital in Lohit HQ Tezu.<br \/>\nThe person had travelled to Nizamuddin in Delhi, where a religious congregation had taken place recently. The area has since emerged as the epicentre of the coronavirus.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the swab sample of the person who was arrested by the capital police on 20 March instead of being sent to a quarantine facility has also returned a negative result. The second sample will be taken in a few days, according to authorities.<br \/>\nThe person, who had also returned from Nizamuddin, left for Laluk in Assam on 23 March.<br \/>\nThe samples of the six others, in Namsai, who had gone to Nizamuddin have also returned negative results.<br \/>\nSeven others, from the capital, who had travelled to the area have been identified. All their family members have been kept in a quarantine facility.<br \/>\nTwenty-six samples were sent to Assam on Friday for analysis. Arunachal does not have a testing facility. The number of tests carried out till Friday was 106. The results of 30 samples are awaited.<br \/>\nOrientation trg starts<br \/>\nA three-day online orientation training on Covid-19 for DMOs, CMS&#8217;, MS&#8217;, MOs and other stakeholders of all districts via the &#8216;Zoom&#8217; app started on Friday from the state task force centre at the health services directorate in Naharlagun.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the surveillance cell has appealed to anyone in Arunachal who attended the religious congregation of the Tablighi Jamaat in Nizamuddin to immediately contact the health department at 0360-2350407\/104.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Apr 3: The family members of the first Covid-19 positive patient in the state have tested negative for the virus. The patient&#8217;s parents, brother, and sister-in-law will be retested soon. The patient, a 31-year-old migrant labourer, is asymptomatic and is in the isolation ward of the zonal hospital in Lohit HQ Tezu. [&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-98680","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\/98680","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=98680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}