{"id":251338,"date":"2020-04-05T06:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T10:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251338"},"modified":"2020-04-05T06:03:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T10:03:35","slug":"covid-19-cases-now-3246-death-toll-climbs-to-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/05\/covid-19-cases-now-3246-death-toll-climbs-to-152\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 cases now 3,246; death toll climbs to 152"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251339\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fusion-medical-animation-rnr8D3FNUNY-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251339\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fusion-medical-animation-rnr8D3FNUNY-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fusion-medical-animation-rnr8D3FNUNY-unsplash.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fusion-medical-animation-rnr8D3FNUNY-unsplash-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fusion-medical-animation-rnr8D3FNUNY-unsplash-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fusion-medical-animation-rnr8D3FNUNY-unsplash-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In its 4 p.m. case bulletin, the DOH also reported seven additional recoveries &#8212; bringing the total number of recovered cases in the country to 64 &#8212; and eight new deaths, totaling the number of deaths nationwide to 152. (File photo: Fusion Medical Animation\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday reported 152 new positive cases for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-2019), bringing the total number of cases in the country to 3,246.<\/p>\n<p>In its 4 p.m. case bulletin, the DOH also reported seven additional recoveries &#8212; bringing the total number of recovered cases in the country to 64 &#8212; and eight new deaths, totaling the number of deaths nationwide to 152.<\/p>\n<p>It has not provided details on the new cases, recoveries, and deaths yet.<\/p>\n<p>During the virtual presser, DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire requested the public not to discriminate patients with Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Lahat tayo ay pwedeng mahawa ng Covid-19 tulad ng ibang sakit, wala itong sini-sino. Mapanganib ang diskriminasyon sa sakit na ito, maaari itong maging dahilan para itago ng mga tao ang kanilang mga sakit o sintomas<\/em>\u00a0(Covid-19 spares no one. Anybody can be infected by it. Discrimination against the disease is dangerous as it may become the reason for people to hide their sickness or symptoms),&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Vergeire urged the public to redirect their worries about contacting the disease to proper actions &#8212; proper and regular handwashing, staying at home and observing physical distancing and proper cough etiquette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday reported 152 new positive cases for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-2019), bringing the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":251339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ma-teresa-montemayor","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251338","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=251338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251340,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251338\/revisions\/251340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}