{"id":251945,"date":"2020-04-13T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251945"},"modified":"2020-04-13T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:17:18","slug":"briones-now-covid-19-negative-needs-another-week-of-isolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/13\/briones-now-covid-19-negative-needs-another-week-of-isolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Briones now Covid-19 negative; needs another week of isolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_251697\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251697\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/89576999_3455783917814611_4170240822953902080_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251697\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/89576999_3455783917814611_4170240822953902080_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/89576999_3455783917814611_4170240822953902080_o.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/89576999_3455783917814611_4170240822953902080_o-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/89576999_3455783917814611_4170240822953902080_o-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-251697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;With God\u2019s grace and your fervent prayers, I am happy to announce that my latest swab test yielded negative from Covid-19 according to the advisory of the Department of Health (DOH) today, Monday. I would like to thank everyone, especially my immediate relatives, colleagues, churchmates, and my DepEd family, who prayed and expressed moral support for my quick recovery from Covid-19,&#8221; Briones said in a statement. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DepartmentOfEducation.PH\/photos\/a.479588078767558\/3455783911147945\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">photo:<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DepartmentOfEducation.PH\/\">DepEd Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones on Monday said she is now negative of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With God\u2019s grace and your fervent prayers, I am happy to announce that my latest swab test yielded negative from Covid-19 according to the advisory of the Department of Health (DOH) today, Monday. I would like to thank everyone, especially my immediate relatives, colleagues, churchmates, and my DepEd family, who prayed and expressed moral support for my quick recovery from Covid-19,&#8221; Briones said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from thanking everyone who expressed kind words and good wishes for her recovery on the DepEd\u2019s official social media pages, Briones also expressed her admiration for all the front-liners who assisted her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My Covid-19 episode, however, is not yet over. I will still remain in isolation for another seven days while those who were in close contact with me are also under monitoring and following strict quarantine protocols. Nonetheless, I will continue to work as hard as I can to contribute to the measures for the immediate containment of Covid-19 in the country,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>On April 9, Briones said she is positive for Covid-19 after being tested for the disease the second time on April 2 after attending a meeting on March 23 with another Cabinet member who is positive for the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Briones was first tested on March 13, after being exposed to a person with Covid-19 during a Senate hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Leonor Briones on Monday said she is now negative of the coronavirus disease 2019 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":251697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/251945","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=251945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251946,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251945\/revisions\/251946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}