{"id":252204,"date":"2020-04-15T21:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252204"},"modified":"2020-04-15T21:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T01:06:16","slug":"body-of-envoy-who-died-of-covid-19-now-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/15\/body-of-envoy-who-died-of-covid-19-now-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of envoy who died of Covid-19 now in PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On this solemn afternoon, DFA officials led by Foreign Affairs Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teddyboylocsin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@teddyboylocsin<\/a> and NOK of the late Ambassador Catalla, as one family, pay their last respects to dearest Amb. \u201cBernie\u201d. The DFA may have lost a dedicated servant but her legacy continues! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wja3ZTHtx2\">pic.twitter.com\/wja3ZTHtx2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; DFA Philippines (@DFAPHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DFAPHL\/status\/1250352826959593473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The body of Ambassador Bernardita &#8220;Bernie&#8221; Catalla, who succumbed to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) while serving as the Philippine envoy to Lebanon, arrived in Manila on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft carrying her remains landed at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport around 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In a solemn ceremony, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) officials led by Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. and Catalla&#8217;s family paid their last respects to the late envoy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DFA may have lost a dedicated servant but her legacy continues,&#8221; the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy&#8217;s eldest sister, Magdalena Catalla, received the Philippine flag that draped the casket.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of the late envoy, Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez said the flags at all DFA offices in the Philippines and abroad will be flown at half-mast until Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Catalla, a career diplomat for 27 years, is the first Philippine ambassador in active service to die of Covid-19. She passed away on April 2 in a Beirut hospital where she was confined. She was 62.<\/p>\n<p>Last December 2019, the ambassador led the voluntary mass repatriation program of the Philippine Embassy in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>Before her assignment to Lebanon, she was Consul General in Hong Kong, looking over the welfare of hundreds of thousands of overseas Filipinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this solemn afternoon, DFA officials led by Foreign Affairs Secretary @teddyboylocsin and NOK of the late Ambassador Catalla, as &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":252205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252204","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\/252204","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=252204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252206,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252204\/revisions\/252206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}