{"id":249228,"date":"2020-03-20T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249228"},"modified":"2020-03-20T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T07:59:00","slug":"filipino-woman-in-kuwait-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/20\/filipino-woman-in-kuwait-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino woman in Kuwait tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248892\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248892\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait regrets to inform the Filipino community that a female domestic worker is the first confirmed Filipino case of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Kuwait.,&#8221; it said in a statement. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A Filipino woman in Kuwait tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Philippine embassy in Kuwait confirmed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait regrets to inform the Filipino community that a female domestic worker is the first confirmed Filipino case of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Kuwait.,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Filipina domestic worker reportedly had close contact with a person who traveled recently to the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy said the patient is now in a &#8220;stable condition&#8221; and that the Philippine government continues to monitor her case.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the embassy also reminded all Filipinos in the Gulf state to stay at home, follow the instructions of Kuwaiti authorities, and stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate bulletin, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported that a Filipino also contracted the disease in Macau.<\/p>\n<p>The patient, who is a non-resident worker in Macau, is the 15th case of Covid-19 infection recorded in the Chinese special administrative region.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate General in Macau remains in close contact with the local authorities on the details of the patient&#8217;s travel history, the DFA said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 A Filipino woman in Kuwait tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Philippine embassy in Kuwait confirmed on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","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\/249228","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=249228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249232,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249228\/revisions\/249232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}