{"id":21337,"date":"2014-08-09T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=21337"},"modified":"2014-08-09T16:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T08:36:18","slug":"pinoys-in-africa-free-from-ebola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/09\/pinoys-in-africa-free-from-ebola\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoys in Africa free from Ebola"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7933\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ebola.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7933\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ebola-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ebola-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/ebola.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Health announced yesterday that a total of 5,000 overseas Filipino workers in West African countries remain free from Ebola.<\/p>\n<p>Despite\u00a0reports of the spread of alarming Ebola cases in the said region, DOH spokesman\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lyndon Lee Suy ensured families of the OFWs in the country that Filipinos in Africa are still Ebola-free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Suy also added that 15 OFWs including three who suffered from fever and have been cleared by the DOH, have already returned to the country.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the World Health Organization indicated that the outbreak started in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Guinea in December 2013 and spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A total of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">1,711 Ebola cases with 1,070 confirmed cases, 436 considered \u201cprobable\u201d and 205 \u201csuspect\u201d cases, were reported as of August 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meanhwhile, a data from the Department of Foreign Affairs showed that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">880 Filipinos are in Guinea, 1,979 in Sierra Leone and 632 in Liberia, including the 148 Filipinos in the United Nations Peacekeeping Force.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The DOH is now conducting measures to prevent the Ebola virus from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Health announced yesterday that a total of 5,000 overseas Filipino workers in West African countries &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":7933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[2401,7053],"class_list":["post-21337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","tag-doh","tag-ebola-virus","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}