{"id":245951,"date":"2020-02-23T09:54:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=245951"},"modified":"2020-02-23T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T14:54:25","slug":"no-pinoys-infected-with-covid-19-in-sokor-amid-red-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/02\/23\/no-pinoys-infected-with-covid-19-in-sokor-amid-red-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"No Pinoys infected with Covid-19 in SoKor amid &#8216;red alert&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_240648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240648\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pedestrians-1209316_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240648\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pedestrians-1209316_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pedestrians-1209316_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pedestrians-1209316_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pedestrians-1209316_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/pedestrians-1209316_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The official assured that the Philippine Embassy in Korea is monitoring the situation and coordinating with Filipino community leaders in the country, including those in the hardest-hit Daegu City. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 No Filipino has so far been reported infected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in South Korea, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said, as the East Asian nation raised its virus alert to the highest level on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Korean government has raised its Covid-19 alert level to its highest, red, due to the recent spike in confirmed community infections. Korea PE (Philippine Embassy) says there are no Filipinos affected by the Covid-19 outbreak so far,&#8221; DFA Undersecretary Brigido Dulay said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The official assured that the Philippine Embassy in Korea is monitoring the situation and coordinating with Filipino community leaders in the country, including those in the hardest-hit Daegu City.<\/p>\n<p>The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the country&#8217;s fifth death from Covid-19 on Sunday with the total confirmed cases reaching 602.<\/p>\n<p>Yonhap News Agency reported that President Moon Jae-in raised the country&#8217;s disease alert by one notch to the highest level in response to the rising number of Covid-19 deaths and infection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Covid-19 incident has been confronted by a grave watershed&#8230; a few days from now is a very important moment,&#8221; the news agency quoted the South Korean leader as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 No Filipino has so far been reported infected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in South Korea, the Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":240648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245951","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\/245951","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=245951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245952,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245951\/revisions\/245952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}