{"id":249675,"date":"2020-03-24T04:21:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=249675"},"modified":"2020-03-24T04:21:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T08:21:01","slug":"ph-receives-pcr-machine-covid-19-test-kits-from-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/24\/ph-receives-pcr-machine-covid-19-test-kits-from-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"PH receives PCR machine, Covid-19 test kits from Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I received today a donation from the Singapore government of 3,000 COVID-19 diagnostic tests and one polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine. The turnover ceremony was led by Singapore Ambassador Gerard Ho Wei Hong <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jef3nUs7ZX\">pic.twitter.com\/jef3nUs7ZX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1242353858711408640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. received on Tuesday a total of 3,000 test kits for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and a thermal cycler from the Singaporean government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I received this afternoon a donation from the Singapore government of 3,000 Covid-19 diagnostic test kits and one polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The equipment was personally handed to Locsin by Singaporean Ambassador to Manila Gerard Ho Wei Hong.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Locsin thanked the Singapore government.<\/p>\n<p>The donation is among the assistance pouring in from the Philippines&#8217; foreign partners as it addresses the rapid increase in Covid-19 cases in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, China donated a total of 100,000 Covid-19 test kits and essential medical supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The US government also allocated over PHP139 million to assist the Department of Health (DOH) in its infectious disease threat prevention and response.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Locsin said &#8220;someone is willing to donate refrigeration facilities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have good news. DOH told me the process of accrediting the big hospitals and labs with secure facilities to contain virus will be complete this Friday. They&#8217;ll be doing testing. Also China shipments (are) farmed out. I referred someone willing to donate refrigeration facilities,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received today a donation from the Singapore government of 3,000 COVID-19 diagnostic tests and one polymerase chain reaction (PCR) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":249676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/249675","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249677,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249675\/revisions\/249677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}