{"id":243941,"date":"2020-02-03T21:11:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=243941"},"modified":"2020-02-03T21:11:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:11:29","slug":"house-takes-precautionary-measures-vs-2019-ncov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/03\/house-takes-precautionary-measures-vs-2019-ncov\/","title":{"rendered":"House takes precautionary measures vs. 2019-nCoV"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_243696\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-243696\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/With-the-spread-of-new-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-do-to-protect-yourself-from-it.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-243696\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/With-the-spread-of-new-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-do-to-protect-yourself-from-it.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/With-the-spread-of-new-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-do-to-protect-yourself-from-it.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/With-the-spread-of-new-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-do-to-protect-yourself-from-it-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/With-the-spread-of-new-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-do-to-protect-yourself-from-it-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/With-the-spread-of-new-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-do-to-protect-yourself-from-it-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-243696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It shall also monitor the health of employees especially those who got sick, those who traveled to countries with 2019-nCoV infection, and those who had contact with confirmed or suspected cases. (Pixabay file photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The House of Representatives has started implementing precautionary measures for all members, employees, and personnel amid the threat of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).<\/p>\n<p>In a health advisory issued by House Secretary-General Luis Montales, the use of thermal scanners for screening in all entrance lobbies was among the measures taken by the chamber to prevent the spread of the infection.<\/p>\n<p>The chamber shall also distribute protective masks and gloves to frontliners; set up tents as holding areas for persons suspected of infection; clean, sanitize, disinfect common and work areas; and supply liquid soaps, sanitizers, alcohol and disinfectant sprays in comfort rooms.<\/p>\n<p>It shall also monitor the health of employees especially those who got sick, those who traveled to countries with 2019-nCoV infection, and those who had contact with confirmed or suspected cases.<\/p>\n<p>The health advisory highly recommended House members, employees and personnel to avoid or defer travel to countries with documented cases of the 2019-nCoV.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, those who traveled to countries with confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV and arrived in the Philippines on January 20 onwards, were advised to practice self-quarantine measures for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed two cases of nCoV in the country, a 38-year-old woman from Wuhan in Hubei province, China and her companion, a 44-year-old man who died on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The House of Representatives has started implementing precautionary measures for all members, employees, and personnel amid the threat of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":243696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243941","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243942,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243941\/revisions\/243942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}