{"id":252343,"date":"2020-04-16T20:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252343"},"modified":"2020-04-16T20:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T00:57:48","slug":"240-of-757-covid-19-positive-pinoys-abroad-recover-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/16\/240-of-757-covid-19-positive-pinoys-abroad-recover-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"240 of 757 Covid-19 positive Pinoys abroad recover: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248077\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248077\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The death toll is now at 103, one of whom is recorded in Asia Pacific region, 33 in Europe, five in Middle East\/Africa, and 64 in the Americas. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Around 240 of the 757 total cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among Filipinos abroad have recovered, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of the total confirmed cases, 18 new recoveries and 15 new deaths were reported in the Americas since yesterday,&#8221; DFA Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez said.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll is now at 103, one of whom is recorded in Asia Pacific region, 33 in Europe, five in Middle East\/Africa, and 64 in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Me\u00f1ez said the DFA remains committed in supporting global and national efforts against Covid-19 and assisting Filipinos abroad.<\/p>\n<p>On assistance to nationals, the agency has repatriated a total of 3,127 land-based overseas Filipino workers since the Covid-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>It also facilitated the arrival of some 11,579 seafarers affected by the suspension of cruise operations due to the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Around 240 of the 757 total cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among Filipinos abroad have recovered, the Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252343","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\/252343","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=252343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252345,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252343\/revisions\/252345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}