{"id":251488,"date":"2020-04-07T20:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251488"},"modified":"2020-04-07T20:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T00:07:43","slug":"filipinos-with-covid-19-abroad-rise-to-569","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/07\/filipinos-with-covid-19-abroad-rise-to-569\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipinos with Covid-19 abroad rise to 569"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248892\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248892\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248892\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/three-face-masks-3786131-1-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A total of 217 cases were recorded in the Asia Pacific region, 192 in Europe, 61 in the Middle East\/Africa, and 99 cases in the Americas. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday said the total number of Filipinos with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) abroad has increased to 569 as of April 7.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reports on our overseas Filipinos as of today show an increase of confirmed Covid-19 cases at 6 percent across the regions of Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and the Middle East\/Africa with most of the new cases and deaths recorded in the Americas,&#8221; the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 217 cases were recorded in the Asia Pacific region, 192 in Europe, 61 in the Middle East\/Africa, and 99 cases in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total number, 65 have died&#8211; one in the Asia Pacific region, 26 in Europe, three in the Middle East\/Africa, and a total of 35 in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 346 are undergoing treatment and 158 have recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA said the number of recoveries significantly increased at 19 percent, the highest in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We owe the increasing number of recoveries to all the brave health workers across the globe who continue to risk their lives to ensure the health of our\u00a0<em>kababayan<\/em>\u00a0(countrymen) abroad. The DFA, together with its Foreign Service Posts, is with you in this global fight against Covid-19,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday said the total number of Filipinos with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251488","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\/251488","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=251488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251489,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251488\/revisions\/251489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}