{"id":251083,"date":"2020-04-03T06:35:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251083"},"modified":"2020-04-03T06:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:35:04","slug":"ph-covid-19-cases-exceed-3k-death-toll-climbs-to-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/03\/ph-covid-19-cases-exceed-3k-death-toll-climbs-to-136\/","title":{"rendered":"PH Covid-19 cases exceed 3K, death toll climbs to 136"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249499\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249499\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;As of 4 p.m. today, the Department of Health reports 385 new cases (PH2634-PH3018) of Covid-19. The total number of cases in the country is now at 3,018,&#8221; it said in a bulletin. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines now has 3,018 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Department of Health (DOH) announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of 4 p.m. today, the Department of Health reports 385 new cases (PH2634-PH3018) of Covid-19. The total number of cases in the country is now at 3,018,&#8221; it said in a bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>Of this number, one additional patient has recovered while 29 new deaths were recorded, bringing the total number of recoveries to 52 and the deaths to 136.<\/p>\n<p>The government had earlier announced the establishment of community quarantine facilities to cater to the suspected and confirmed Covid-19 patients who are asymptomatic or only exhibiting mild symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>In Metro Manila, the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City and the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex in Manila are being prepared to serve as quarantine areas.<\/p>\n<p>The government also targets to start mass testing of persons suspected of being carriers of the virus on April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippines now has 3,018 cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Department of Health (DOH) announced Friday. &#8220;As &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","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\/251083","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=251083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251084,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251083\/revisions\/251084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}