{"id":250613,"date":"2020-03-31T09:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=250613"},"modified":"2020-03-31T09:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:40:37","slug":"dilg-chief-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/03\/31\/dilg-chief-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"DILG chief tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_234224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234224\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dilg-briefing-10-11-f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234224\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dilg-briefing-10-11-f.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dilg-briefing-10-11-f.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dilg-briefing-10-11-f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dilg-briefing-10-11-f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/dilg-briefing-10-11-f-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE:\u00a0 Interior Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o on Friday (Oct. 11, 2019) (PNA photo by Joey O. Razon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Interior Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o on Tuesday announced that he has tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, March 31, I received the result from RITM (Research Institute for Tropical Medicine) informing me that I am positive for Covid-19,&#8221; A\u00f1o said in a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00f1o started his self-quarantine on March 26 after learning four persons he had associated with have tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I make this announcement to call the attention of all persons I had close contact with to go on self-quarantine and observe any symptoms,&#8221; A\u00f1o said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the result of his test will not dampen his spirit and energy to perform his job as one of the officials of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases tasked to combat the deadly virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no symptoms but I&#8217;m taking all precautions and staying home and videoconferencing with IATF members almost every day,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00f1o urged the people he had contact with to follow the Department of Health (DOH) guidelines on self-quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am advising everyone to stay at home and follow social distancing. Your strong commitment will help defeat the virus,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Interior Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o on Tuesday announced that he has tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). &#8220;Today, March &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":234224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-christopher-lloyd-caliwan","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250613","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=250613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250614,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250613\/revisions\/250614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}