{"id":249507,"date":"2020-03-22T03:23:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T07:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249507"},"modified":"2020-03-22T03:23:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T07:23:48","slug":"duque-tests-negative-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/22\/duque-tests-negative-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Duque tests negative for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_151617\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151617\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Francisco-Duque-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151617\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Francisco-Duque-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Francisco-Duque-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Francisco-Duque-1-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Francisco-Duque-1-768x466.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duque has been on home quarantine since Thursday. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542.1073741828.749071305117153\/1774764989214441\/?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\u2014 Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has tested negative for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Si Secretary po ay nasa maayos na kundisyon at siya po ay nagtatrabaho pa rin, kakakausap lang namin sa kanya kanina. Lumabas na po ang kanyang resulta para sa Covid-19 kagabi kung saan po ito ay<\/em>\u00a0(The secretary is in good condition and he&#8217;s still working, we&#8217;ve just talked to him earlier. His test result for Covid-19 was released last night and it is) negative,&#8221; DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said during the Laging Handa public briefing.<\/p>\n<p>On March 19, Vergeire reported that Duque has been tested for Covid-19 and underwent home quarantine because he is asthmatic and hypertensive.<\/p>\n<p>Duque has been on home quarantine since Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH earlier said offices have been disinfected and close contacts were informed so that they can immediately undergo home quarantine and strict monitoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has tested negative for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), an official of the Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":151617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249507","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\/249507","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=249507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249508,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249507\/revisions\/249508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}