{"id":249440,"date":"2020-03-21T07:12:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249440"},"modified":"2020-03-21T07:12:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:12:49","slug":"4-elderly-patients-recover-from-covid-19-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/21\/4-elderly-patients-recover-from-covid-19-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"4 elderly patients recover from Covid-19: DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249441\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249441\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/person-on-bench-1389589.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249441\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/person-on-bench-1389589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/person-on-bench-1389589.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/person-on-bench-1389589-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/person-on-bench-1389589-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/person-on-bench-1389589-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249441\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Today, DOH announces five new recoveries (four elderly, one of which is a severe case). This brings the total number of recoveries to 13,&#8221; the agency said in its 4 p.m. bulletin. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Four of the five patients who recently recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) were senior citizens, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, DOH announces five new recoveries (four elderly, one of which is a severe case). This brings the total number of recoveries to 13,&#8221; the agency said in its 4 p.m. bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>Patient 41, a 75-year-old Filipino woman from Makati City, was among those who recovered. The patient previously traveled to the United States and was exposed to Covid-19 cases.<\/p>\n<p>She was confirmed positive for the disease on March 11 and was eventually discharged on March 17 &#8220;asymptomatic with 1 negative result&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Patient 16, a 70-year-old Filipino male from San Juan City and a known hypertensive, was discharged on March 19 &#8220;asymptomatic with 2 negative results&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The two remaining elderly persons also recovered this week.<\/p>\n<p>Patient 17, the 69-year-old wife of Patient 11, exhibited symptoms on March 2 and was eventually diagnosed with Covid-19 on March 9. She was discharged on March 19 &#8220;asymptomatic with 2 negative results&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Patient 49, a 72-year-old Filipino male from Batangas, was discharged from the hospital on March 21 &#8220;asymptomatic with 2 negative results&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH reiterated that elderly people with an average of 66 years of age and those with underlying medical conditions are the most vulnerable to the disease.<\/p>\n<p>To date, the Philippines has a total of 307 recorded cases of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Four of the five patients who recently recovered from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) were senior citizens, the Department of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249440","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\/249440","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=249440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249442,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249440\/revisions\/249442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}