{"id":99389,"date":"2020-04-10T02:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=99389"},"modified":"2020-04-10T02:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:33:34","slug":"capital-tops-in-swab-sample-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/04\/10\/capital-tops-in-swab-sample-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital tops in swab sample collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Apr 9:<\/strong> The highest number of swab samples for Covid-19 has been taken in the state capital, with a total of 107.<br \/>\nForty-seven samples have been taken in Namsai, followed by 16 in East Siang.<br \/>\nThe total number of samples taken so far in the state is 207, according to the health department.<br \/>\nOn Thursday, 18 samples were taken &#8211; 11 in Namsai, five in the capital, and two in East Siang.<br \/>\nOf the total 207 samples taken, the results of 20 are awaited.<br \/>\nSo far only one test has returned a positive result. The 31-year-old male patient is asymptomatic and is in the isolation ward of the zonal general hospital in Tezu.<br \/>\n&#8220;His second test also came positive but with a lesser viral load as compared to the first sample, as per the ICMR in Dibrugarh (Assam),&#8221; according to a statement from the hospital&#8217;s deputy superintendent.<br \/>\nThe patient is reported to be without any physical discomfort, and counselling is being provided to him by a clinical psychologist.<br \/>\nTill now no tests have been carried out in East Kameng, Kamle, Kra Daadi, Longding, Lower Siang, Lower Subansiri, Pakke-Kessang, Shi-Yomi, Siang, Upper Siang, and Upper Subansiri districts, according to the daily bulletin issued by the IDSP&#8217;s state surveillance cell.<br \/>\nAcross the country, there were 5734 confirmed cases of Covid-19 till 5 pm of Thursday. Some 473 have recovered. The highest number of cases has been registered in Maharashtra, with 1135, followed by 700 plus cases in Tamil Nadu.<br \/>\nAs many as 166 persons have died across the country, with 72 reported dead in Maharashtra, followed by 16 in Gujarat.<br \/>\nIn the Northeast, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Nagaland remain unscathed by the highly contagious virus.<br \/>\nAssam has reported 28 cases, while Arunachal, Mizoram, Tripura and Manipur have reported one case each. Manipur had earlier reported two cases, but one of the patients has recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff reporter ITANAGAR, Apr 9: The highest number of swab samples for Covid-19 has been taken in the state capital, with a total of 107. Forty-seven samples have been taken in Namsai, followed by 16 in East Siang. The total number of samples taken so far in the state is 207, according to the health [&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-99389","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\/99389","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=99389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}