{"id":249353,"date":"2020-03-20T21:40:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249353"},"modified":"2020-03-20T21:40:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T01:40:48","slug":"1st-filipino-covid-19-case-in-sokor-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/20\/1st-filipino-covid-19-case-in-sokor-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Filipino Covid-19 case in SoKor recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248077\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248077\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The patient traveled overseas before exhibiting symptoms. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Embassy in Seoul confirmed that a Filipino national in South Korea has contracted the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Philippine Embassy in Seoul received confirmation from the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) that a Filipino national was tested positive with Covid-19 on 20 March 2020. This is the first confirmed case of Covid-19 infection involving a Filipino national in South Korea,&#8221; the embassy said Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The patient traveled overseas before exhibiting symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>He was tested at a hospital in South Korea on March 19 and was confirmed to be positive for Covid-19 the next day.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the embassy said it was closely coordinating with the KCDC and local health authorities, assuring its readiness to assist the Filipino national as needed.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization has recorded a total of 209,839 confirmed cases of Covid-19 globally. Of this number, 8,413 were recorded in South Korea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Embassy in Seoul confirmed that a Filipino national in South Korea has contracted the coronavirus disease 2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249353","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\/249353","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=249353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249354,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249353\/revisions\/249354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}