{"id":244303,"date":"2020-02-07T05:20:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=244303"},"modified":"2020-02-07T05:20:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T10:20:21","slug":"bello-apologizes-to-dubai-over-ofws-ncov-death-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/07\/bello-apologizes-to-dubai-over-ofws-ncov-death-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bello apologizes to Dubai over OFW&#8217;s nCoV death announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_242406\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-242406\" style=\"width: 3698px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-242406\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3698\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3.jpg 3698w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/dole-3-1024x665.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3698px) 100vw, 3698px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-242406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Department of Labor and Employment Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Thursday (Sept. 27, 2018) (PNA photo by Gil Calinga)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Friday apologized to the Dubai government in the United Arab Emirates for announcing that the death of a female overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in the city was due to the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Bello nonetheless wishes to apologize to the government of Dubai for the confusion and whatever anxiety that the announcement may have caused,\u201d the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Bello&#8217;s clarification came after he received a belated report from the Philippine Labor Office in Dubai containing results of confirmatory tests by the Pathology and Genetics Department of the Dubai Health Authority on the OFW\u2019s specimen.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that the deceased OFW tested negative for nCoV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Labor department today (Friday) clarified that the death of OFW Amalia Collado Daproza in Al Zahra Hospital in the United Arab Emirates was not a case of nCoV as earlier reported,\u201d Bello said.<\/p>\n<p>Bello, in a press briefing Thursday, announced that the OFW died of an undetermined coronavirus strain based on earlier information provided by his office.<\/p>\n<p>In a Gulf News report, Dubai&#8217;s Ministry of Health and Prevention, however, said Daproza died of pneumonia and not due to nCoV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Friday apologized to the Dubai government in the United Arab Emirates for announcing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":242406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244303","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=244303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244304,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244303\/revisions\/244304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}