{"id":250300,"date":"2020-03-28T02:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=250300"},"modified":"2020-03-28T02:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T06:42:14","slug":"groups-to-donate-covid-19-test-kits-equipment-to-ph-locsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/28\/groups-to-donate-covid-19-test-kits-equipment-to-ph-locsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups to donate Covid-19 test kits, equipment to PH: Locsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_244990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-244990\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-244990\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/SFA_ASEM20-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-244990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. at the Philippine Embassy in Brussels, Belgium on October 19, 2018. PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Several groups will donate various medical equipment and at least 40,000 coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) test kits, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post, Locsin said the Temasek Foundation in Singapore would donate 40,000 test kits and two ventilators, while Filinvest City Foundation would give four ventilators.<\/p>\n<p>The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will also give an additional donation on top of the RT-PCR Covid detection machine and various personal protective equipment it pledged on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Citing information from the Philippine Embassy in Vienna, Locsin said the IAEA would send a mobile X-ray machine and extra RT-PCR solutions for the detection of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>This brings the total donation of IAEA to 155,176 euros (about PHP8.91 million).<\/p>\n<p>Early this week, Singapore turned over a total of 3,000 Covid-19 test kits and a thermal cycler while the Chinese government sent a total of 100,000 test kits and essential medical supplies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Several groups will donate various medical equipment and at least 40,000 coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) test kits, Foreign Affairs &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-250300","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\/250300","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=250300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250301,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250300\/revisions\/250301"}],"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=250300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}