{"id":248475,"date":"2020-03-15T04:19:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T08:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=248475"},"modified":"2020-03-15T04:19:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T08:19:45","slug":"congress-employee-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/15\/congress-employee-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress employee dies of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_228728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228728\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-228728\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs.jpg 950w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-228728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Secretary General Luis Montales also confirmed the first death linked to the coronavirus in the lower chamber of Congress. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HouseofRepsPH\/photos\/a.10150690050162271\/10155355702737271\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HouseofRepsPH\/\">House of Representatives of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An employee of the House of Representatives diagnosed with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-2019) died early Sunday, according to PBA-Party-list Rep. Jericho Nograles.<\/p>\n<p>Nograles said the employee, who worked at the chamber\u2019s printing department, passed away at 1:45 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSad news. The HRep employee who was positive with COVID-19 passed away earlier today at 1:45AM. He was a friend who worked at the Printing Office, the son of those who work at the Committee Affairs Department, and an in-law of someone from the IPRS (Inter-Parliamentary Relations Service),\u201d Nograles told reporters in a group message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, let\u2019s take a moment and pray for his soul and his family. Let us also take time to reflect that our staff and secretariat, members of the Press, visitors, and even Members could\u2019ve been exposed. Let\u2019s be mindful of any symptoms and do our part on the community quarantine guidelines,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>House Secretary General Luis Montales also confirmed the first death linked to the coronavirus in the lower chamber of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Montales earlier said the staffer had no history of travel to any country with confirmed cases of the deadly virus, and no known history of exposure to an infected person.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To recall, the staff has been in and out of the hospital since last year for various ailments. The staff was recently confined for community-acquired pneumonia,&#8221; Montales said.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano has suspended work in the lower chamber from March 16 to April 12.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 An employee of the House of Representatives diagnosed with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-2019) died early Sunday, according to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":228728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248475","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=248475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248478,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248475\/revisions\/248478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}