{"id":248874,"date":"2020-03-18T05:53:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=248874"},"modified":"2020-03-18T05:53:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T09:53:57","slug":"china-to-donate-100k-covid-19-test-kits-to-ph-dfa-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/18\/china-to-donate-100k-covid-19-test-kits-to-ph-dfa-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"China to donate 100K Covid-19 test kits to PH: DFA chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China getting chartered flight by weekend; mysteriously there are no Philippine flights. I am asked to please alert Customs to let donation through pronto\u2014and the rest of the bureaucracy not to throw a monkey wrench. Dear Thor, please, prepare your lightning bolts. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/puudrOWnlZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/puudrOWnlZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1240109535269998592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Chinese government is donating 100,000 coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) test kits and other essential medical supplies to the Philippines, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;China (is) getting a chartered flight by the weekend; mysteriously there are no Philippine flights. I am asked to please alert Customs to let donation through pronto,&#8221; he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Locsin said the donation would also include 10,000 N95 masks, 10,000 sets of personal protective equipment, and 100,000 surgical masks.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese embassy in Manila said it is now facilitating with the Department of Health the speedy turnover of said donations once they arrived in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ambassador Huang reaffirms that the Philippines continues to stand close in China&#8217;s heart as our centuries-long relationship has shown. The Chinese people stand ready to help their Philippine brothers and sisters to go through this difficult time,&#8221; the embassy wrote on its official social media page.<\/p>\n<p>The additional donation was announced days after Beijing donated a total of 2,000 high-tech test kits, also known as BGI RT-qCPR test kits, to Manila.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China getting chartered flight by weekend; mysteriously there are no Philippine flights. I am asked to please alert Customs to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":244990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/248874","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=248874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248875,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248874\/revisions\/248875"}],"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=248874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}