{"id":249511,"date":"2020-03-22T03:33:35","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T07:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249511"},"modified":"2020-03-22T03:33:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T07:33:35","slug":"singapore-to-donate-3k-covid-19-test-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/22\/singapore-to-donate-3k-covid-19-test-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore to donate 3K Covid-19 test kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Singapore is DONATING 3,000 COVID test kits and one PCR machine. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Memoing the President about this right now. I&#39;m a bit tired.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1241585334086823936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Singapore will donate 3,000 testing kits for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and one polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Locsin made the announcement through his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian turned over a total of 100,000 Covid-19 test kits to Locsin and representatives of the Department of Health (DOH).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the test kits, China also donated at least 10,000 pieces of N95 masks, 100,000 surgical masks, and 10,000 personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Senator Manny Pacquiao donated 600,000 face masks to various frontliners serving the country amid the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao donated about 100,000 face masks to the Philippine National Police; 50,000 to the Armed Forces of the Philippines; 75,000 to the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine; 75,000 to the DOH; 75,000 to the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA); and 50,000 to other medical workers.<\/p>\n<p>Pacquiao also donated five buses to MMDA for the transportation of health workers and other frontliners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore is DONATING 3,000 COVID test kits and one PCR machine. THANK YOU SO MUCH. Memoing the President about this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":246428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249511","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\/249511","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=249511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249512,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249511\/revisions\/249512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}