{"id":244989,"date":"2020-02-15T02:40:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T07:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=244989"},"modified":"2020-02-15T02:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T07:40:01","slug":"locsin-opposes-travel-ban-on-singapore-amid-covid-19-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/15\/locsin-opposes-travel-ban-on-singapore-amid-covid-19-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Locsin opposes travel ban on Singapore amid Covid-19 threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244990\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244990\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. at the Philippine Embassy in Brussels, Belgium on October 19, 2018. PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said he would oppose a travel ban on Singapore amid the 58 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the Southeast Asian state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not support a travel ban to &amp; from ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Singapore. A ban should hinge not on the incidence &amp; number of infections\/fatalities but on the demonstrated capability of the state concerned to contain the disease &amp; strictly regulate ingress and egress from its air\/seaports,&#8221; Locsin wrote on his official Twitter account on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Singapore has raised its alert level to orange, which means the disease is severe and spreads easily from one person to another.<\/p>\n<p>A similar alert level was last imposed by Singapore during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>There are 58 confirmed Covid-19 patients in the Southeast Asian state, 711 cases who tested negative, 15 discharged, and 82 with pending test results.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, the Singaporean government clarified that no country has banned travel to the city-state.<\/p>\n<p>Health Secretary Francisco Duque III earlier said he would present an assessment before the inter-agency task force about a possible travel restriction on Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte has imposed a travel ban on all foreign nationals from mainland China and its special administrative regions Hong Kong and Macau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said he would oppose a travel ban on Singapore amid the 58 cases &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":244990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244989","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\/244989","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=244989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244991,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244989\/revisions\/244991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}