{"id":10929,"date":"2020-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10929"},"modified":"2020-07-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10929","title":{"rendered":"Karunakar Paika, additional magistrate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karunakar Paika, an Additional District Magistrate (ADM) in Odisha’s Gajapati district died of COVID-19 on July 21, 2020 — first administrative rank officer of the Indian State to fall victim to the virus.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Paika, 55 died at the MKCG Hospital in Berhampur in the morning. He was in charge of a covid hospital at Paralakhemundi, district headquarter town of Gajapati.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

After the Odisha Administrative Service officer’s death, swab was collected and tested using Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method. It was found that he was infected with virus.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

“Paika had not been keeping well for the past few days. When his condition deteriorated, he was taken to MKCG Hospital, Berhampur. We could not save him,” Anupam Saha, district Collector said over phone.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Karunakar Paika, an Additional District Magistrate (ADM) in Odisha’s Gajapati district died of COVID-19 on July 21, 2020 — first administrative rank officer of the Indian State to fall victim to the virus. Paika, 55 died at the MKCG Hospital in Berhampur in the morning. He was in charge of a covid hospital at Paralakhemundi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[47,3,7019],"tags":[8403,1051,114,8051,113,792,6710,8401,4178,6709,8402,6224,6434,6435],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/imageholder\/uploads\/India_flag1.webp","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10438,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=10438","url_meta":{"origin":10929,"position":0},"title":"Debdatta Roy, Deputy Magistrate","date":"July 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Debdatta Roy, the Deputy Magistrate at Chandannagar in Hooghly district of the Indian state of West Bengal \u2013 died on July 13, 2020 from Covid-19 complications. 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