{"id":248294,"date":"2020-03-14T00:27:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T04:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=248294"},"modified":"2020-03-14T00:27:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T04:27:52","slug":"duterte-tested-negative-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/14\/duterte-tested-negative-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte tested negative for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_231460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231460\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190917-phKNG2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-231460\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190917-phKNG2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190917-phKNG2.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190917-phKNG2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190917-phKNG2-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/20190917-phKNG2-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the Malaca\u00f1an Palace on September 17, 2019. KING RODRIGUEZ\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte remains \u201cfit and healthy\u201d to fulfill his mandate as the country\u2019s highest elected official after he tested negative for 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Senator Christopher Lawrence Go announced on Friday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Go made the announcement, a day ahead of the anticipated release of the test results.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a text message sent to Palace reporters, Go said he also tested negative for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe results of the tests for Covid-19 conducted on President Rodrigo Duterte and I turned out negative. We are fit and healthy to perform our duties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1ang has yet to issue an official statement.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte and Go underwent tests for Covid-19 at Bahay Pagbabago in Malaca\u00f1an on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The two decided to have themselves tested after they recent meeting with some Cabinet members who have direct exposure to a Covid-19 patient.<\/p>\n<p>The tests by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine was supposed to be released on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Go assured that he and Duterte would continue to \u201cseriously\u201d take precautionary measures and comply with the advice of health officials for them to \u201cremain healthy\u201d and avoid the spread of the Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now more than ever, we as elected officials should do everything we can to be of service to the Filipino people. The government as a whole should still do its job in a manner that will not put the health of others at risk.\u00a0<em>Hindi pwedeng ipagpaliban ang tulong sa kapwa Pilipino, tuloy tuloy dapat ang serbisyo.<\/em>\u00a0(We cannot stop assisting Filipinos. Public service should continue),\u201d he said.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 President Rodrigo Duterte remains \u201cfit and healthy\u201d to fulfill his mandate as the country\u2019s highest elected official after he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":231460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248294","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=248294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248295,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248294\/revisions\/248295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}