{"id":247606,"date":"2020-03-09T08:51:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=247606"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:51:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:51:04","slug":"comelec-suspends-voter-registration-amid-covid-19-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/09\/comelec-suspends-voter-registration-amid-covid-19-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Comelec suspends voter registration amid Covid-19 threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211929\" style=\"width: 2185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211929\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2185\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg 2185w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-20x16.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2185px) 100vw, 2185px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: COMELEC Spokesperson James Jimenez (left) on Wednesday (April 24, 2019). (PNA photo by Ben Briones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday announced that there will be no voter registration for the rest of the month due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) threat.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said the suspension of the nationwide voter registration will be effective Tuesday, March 10, until the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a response to the growing threat to public health posed by #COVID19, #VoterReg2020 has been suspended by the COMELEC, until the 31st of March 2020,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez has urged the public to take precautionary measures against the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe public is advised to take all necessary precautions to limit their exposure to the possibility of COVID-19 infection,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide voter registration in the country started last January 20 and will run until September 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte earlier issued a proclamation declaring a state of public health emergency throughout the Philippines after the health department reported the first known local transmission of the deadly disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday announced that there will be no voter registration for the rest of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":211929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247606","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=247606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247607,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247606\/revisions\/247607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}