{"id":249031,"date":"2020-03-19T02:26:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249031"},"modified":"2020-03-19T02:26:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T06:26:39","slug":"doh-chief-currently-asymptomatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/19\/doh-chief-currently-asymptomatic\/","title":{"rendered":"DOH chief currently &#8216;asymptomatic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151610\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151610\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Duque-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151610\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Duque-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Duque-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Duque-1-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Duque-1-768x491.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a text message, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Duque is &#8220;currently asymptomatic&#8221;. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542.1073741828.749071305117153\/1774764972547776\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/\">Senate of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has been tested for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and is on home quarantine, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a text message, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Duque is &#8220;currently asymptomatic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has already been tested for Covid-19 as he is asthmatic and hypertensive. He is now doing work from home,&#8221; Vergeire said.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the DOH confirmed that one of its senior officials has tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The lone confirmed case is a director. Contrary to circulating posts, no member of the DOH Executive Committee is positive for Covid-19,&#8221; the DOH said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has been tested for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and is on home quarantine, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":151610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249031","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=249031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249034,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249031\/revisions\/249034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}