{"id":250038,"date":"2020-03-26T18:54:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=250038"},"modified":"2020-03-26T18:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T22:54:28","slug":"covid-detection-machine-to-arrive-next-week-locsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/26\/covid-detection-machine-to-arrive-next-week-locsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid detection machine to arrive next week: Locsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIENNA PE, The IAEA is donating a RT-PCR COVID DETECTION MACHINE &amp; software &amp; various PPEs. Expected delivery date to PH is on 31 March. Amount approx: Euroe 84,488.00 IAE DG Gross said, &quot;My dear Ambassador, All in this together. Kindest rgards.&quot; Thank you, Peachy, outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin\/status\/1243080600245792769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 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\u2013 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is donating a thermal cycler and other essential medical supplies to assist the Philippines in its response against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IAEA is donating a RT-PCR Covid Detection Machine &amp; software &amp; various PPEs (personal protective equipment). Expected delivery date to the Philippines is on 31 March,&#8221; Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, Jr. said on his official Twitter account on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The official said the donation is worth around PHP4.69 million.<\/p>\n<p>Several countries have already extended aid in the Philippines&#8217; efforts to address the Covid-19 situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, Locsin received a total of 3,000 test kits for Covid-19 and a thermal cycler from the Singaporean government.<\/p>\n<p>The donation follows the assistance extended by Beijing which sent a total of 100,000 test kits to the Philippines and the United States government that allocated over PHP139-million to assist the Department of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIENNA PE, The IAEA is donating a RT-PCR COVID DETECTION MACHINE &amp; software &amp; various PPEs. Expected delivery date to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":244990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250038","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\/250038","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=250038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250039,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250038\/revisions\/250039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}