{"id":244518,"date":"2020-02-10T06:07:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T11:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=244518"},"modified":"2020-02-10T06:07:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T11:07:57","slug":"4-more-pinoys-in-quarantined-ship-test-positive-for-ncov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/10\/4-more-pinoys-in-quarantined-ship-test-positive-for-ncov\/","title":{"rendered":"4 more Pinoys in quarantined ship test positive for nCoV"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244081\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244081\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/person-in-white-hand-gloves-writing-on-white-paper-207601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244081\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/person-in-white-hand-gloves-writing-on-white-paper-207601.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/person-in-white-hand-gloves-writing-on-white-paper-207601.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/person-in-white-hand-gloves-writing-on-white-paper-207601-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/person-in-white-hand-gloves-writing-on-white-paper-207601-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/person-in-white-hand-gloves-writing-on-white-paper-207601-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The DFA, through the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo confirms that four other Filipinos aboard Diamond Princess tested positive for the novel coronavirus yesterday, 9 February 2020, bringing to five the number of positive cases,&#8221; it said in a statement. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Four more Filipinos onboard the quarantined cruise ship in Japan tested positive for the 2019-novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD), the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agency said the four, who were among six-newly confirmed cases of the virus, are now being treated in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DFA, through the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo confirms that four other Filipinos aboard Diamond Princess tested positive for the novel coronavirus yesterday, 9 February 2020, bringing to five the number of positive cases,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The agency reported last week the first Filipino 2019-nCoV case inside the ship.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement, Embassy&#8217;s Deputy Chief of Mission Robespierre Bolivar said the Filipino is &#8220;responding positively&#8221; to treatment.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 500 Filipinos still onboard the vessel, which is docked off the port of Yokohama, Japan since February 4.<\/p>\n<p>As of posting, the embassy is closely coordinating with Japanese authorities and is in constant communication with the Filipinos still inside the ship to provide them assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese Health Ministry said the ship would remain under the mandatory 14-day quarantine period until February 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Four more Filipinos onboard the quarantined cruise ship in Japan tested positive for the 2019-novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":244081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244518","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=244518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244520,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244518\/revisions\/244520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}