{"id":99019,"date":"2020-04-07T01:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=99019"},"modified":"2020-04-07T01:30:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T20:00:36","slug":"board-constituted-for-covid-19-rtk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/07\/board-constituted-for-covid-19-rtk\/","title":{"rendered":"Board constituted for Covid-19 RTK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 6:<\/strong> A board has been constituted to examine the feasibility of adopting the rapid test kit (RTK) approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research for use in management of Covid-19 in Arunachal.<br \/>\nThe feasibility of adopting the cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test for diagnosing the disease will also be examined simultaneously by the board.<br \/>\nThe kit is manufactured by Sensing Self Pvt Ltd, Singapore. It is distributed by Global Hospitality Pvt Ltd, and registered with the FDA.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, a total of 13 swab samples were collected in the state on Monday, taking the total to 162. The results of 15 are awaited.<br \/>\nSo far only one patient has tested positive in the state.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Patient still asymptomatic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Covid-19 positive patient, who is in isolation at the zonal general hospital, Tezu, is doing well, according to a bulletin issued by the medical superintendent (MS).<br \/>\n&#8220;He is still asymptomatic and without any physical discomfort,&#8221; a message from the MS read, adding that the doctors and the nursing staff are constantly monitoring his health status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Apr 6: A board has been constituted to examine the feasibility of adopting the rapid test kit (RTK) approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research for use in management of Covid-19 in Arunachal. The feasibility of adopting the cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test for diagnosing the disease will also be examined simultaneously by [&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-99019","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\/99019","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=99019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}