{"id":251728,"date":"2020-04-09T22:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251728"},"modified":"2020-04-09T22:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T02:05:43","slug":"covid-19-cases-among-pinoys-abroad-now-607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/09\/covid-19-cases-among-pinoys-abroad-now-607\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 cases among Pinoys abroad now 607"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249399\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-red-background-3786120.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249399\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-red-background-3786120.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-red-background-3786120.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-red-background-3786120-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-red-background-3786120-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-red-background-3786120-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are now 226 cases in the Asia Pacific region, 205 in Europe, 114 in the Americas and 62 in the Middle East\/Africa, which remained the same since Wednesday. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases among Filipinos overseas has reached 607 as of April 9, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>There are now 226 cases in the Asia Pacific region, 205 in Europe, 114 in the Americas and 62 in the Middle East\/Africa, which remained the same since Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in the new cases on Thursday was lower than the 25 new cases recorded on April 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While it is still early to claim success, reports today record yet another reduction in the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases among our kababayans abroad at 13 cases from the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, and Europe,&#8221; DFA Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, seven have newly recovered while four have succumbed to the disease, bringing the total number of recovered at 171 and death toll at 72.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This Maundy Thursday, the DFA shares everyone&#8217;s hope and prayers for safety, protection, and healing as we all battle against Covid-19. Combining the power of prayer and action, we commit to continuing our efforts to attend to the needs of our land-based OFWs as well as our seafarers affected by the Covid-19 pandemic around the world,&#8221; Me\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases among Filipinos overseas has reached 607 as of April 9, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/251728","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=251728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251729,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251728\/revisions\/251729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}