{"id":251422,"date":"2020-04-06T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251422"},"modified":"2020-04-06T19:32:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T23:32:30","slug":"duterte-wont-need-to-get-retested-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/06\/duterte-wont-need-to-get-retested-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte won\u2019t need to get retested for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_250199\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250199\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45426787_757389444596110_4510669585921343488_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250199\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45426787_757389444596110_4510669585921343488_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45426787_757389444596110_4510669585921343488_o.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45426787_757389444596110_4510669585921343488_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/45426787_757389444596110_4510669585921343488_o-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte remains \u201cfit and healthy\u201d and does not exhibit any symptoms of Covid-19 such as colds, cough, fever, sore throat or shortness of breath. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/photos\/a.397841807217544\/757389441262777\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PresSpokespersonPH\/\">Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 There won\u2019t be a need for President Rodrigo Duterte to undergo a second round of testing for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), Malaca\u00f1ang said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Duterte remains \u201cfit and healthy\u201d and does not exhibit any symptoms of Covid-19 such as colds, cough, fever, sore throat or shortness of breath.<\/p>\n<p>He said Duterte was not exposed to Interior Secretary Eduardo A\u00f1o, the first Cabinet Secretary who tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo need for a 2nd Covid test. He was not exposed to Sec. (Eduardo) A\u00f1o prior to March 26 when the latter was exposed to four persons confirmed infected with the virus,\u201d he said in a message to reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Last March 12, Duterte and former aide, Senator Christopher \u201cBong\u201d Go, underwent tests for Covid-19 at Bahay Pagbabago in Malaca\u00f1an. Both their results came out negative.<\/p>\n<p>Go said it was only \u201cprudent\u201d for them to get tested since at least two Cabinet members announced that they would go on self-quarantine after having exposure to infected persons.<\/p>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1an Palace, particularly areas frequented by Duterte, was temporarily closed for disinfection on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte decided to stay at Malaca\u00f1an Palace during the month-long enhanced community quarantine to oversee his administration\u2019s efforts to reduce the transmission of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>The Luzon-wide quarantine set to expire on April 12.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo said Duterte will decide whether to lift or extend the community quarantine based on the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 There won\u2019t be a need for President Rodrigo Duterte to undergo a second round of testing for the coronavirus &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":250199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251422","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=251422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251423,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251422\/revisions\/251423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}