{"id":98789,"date":"2020-04-05T02:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=98789"},"modified":"2020-04-05T02:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T21:03:34","slug":"fresh-samples-connected-to-nizamuddin-test-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/fresh-samples-connected-to-nizamuddin-test-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh samples connected to Nizamuddin test negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 4:<\/strong> All swab samples of those connected to the Nizamuddin Tablighi Markaz have returned negative results.<br \/>\nThe returnees and their families, numbering 25, have all tested negative for Covid-19, informed the state surveillance cell of the integrated disease surveillance programme.<br \/>\nThe family members of the first Covid-19 positive patient in the state had also tested negative for the virus on Friday. 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 general 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 \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nThe total number of people tested till Saturday was 134. The results of 28 are awaited.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Mamata Riba, who has been appointment as OSD for Covid-19 in the health department and nodal officer for procurement and surveillance, chaired a meeting of the state task force to take stock of the day-to-day activities of the health department in combating Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Apr 4: All swab samples of those connected to the Nizamuddin Tablighi Markaz have returned negative results. The returnees and their families, numbering 25, have all tested negative for Covid-19, informed the state surveillance cell of the integrated disease surveillance programme. The family members of the first Covid-19 positive patient in the [&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-98789","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\/98789","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=98789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}