{"id":252821,"date":"2020-04-21T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=252821"},"modified":"2020-04-21T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T02:25:08","slug":"62-staff-13-patients-infected-with-covid-19-at-ncmh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/21\/62-staff-13-patients-infected-with-covid-19-at-ncmh\/","title":{"rendered":"62 staff, 13 patients infected with Covid-19 at NCMH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_250787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250787\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8648271410814296888725793309244053568094208n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-250787\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8648271410814296888725793309244053568094208n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8648271410814296888725793309244053568094208n.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/8648271410814296888725793309244053568094208n-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Health Assistant Secretary Maria Rosario Vergeire in a press briefing Monday (Feb. 17, 2020) says there has been a downtrend in the number of persons under investigation (PUIs) for possible coronavirus disease. (PNA photo by Ma. Teresa Montemayor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An official of the Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday reported 75 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) at the National Center for Mental Health (NCMH).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ang 62 po dito ay empleyado ng NCMH at 13 naman po ay<\/em>\u00a0(The 62 are NCMH employees and the 13 are) psychiatric patients,&#8221; DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said during a Covid-19 virtual presser.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the confirmed cases, four employees and one patient have already recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Vergeire said the NCMH employees who are positive of Covid-19 but are asymptomatic are under home quarantine and are monitored by the DOH daily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Samantala, ang mga healthcare workers na nakakitaan symptoms ay naka-admit sa iba&#8217;t ibang ospital. Ang mga psychiatric patients naman na nagpositibo ay nasa pangangalaga ng<\/em>\u00a0(Meanwhile, the healthcare workers with symptoms are admitted in different hospitals. The psychiatric patients who are positive are under the care of the) NCMH,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH earlier reported 140 new persons infected with Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 6,599.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 An official of the Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday reported 75 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":250787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/252821","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=252821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252822,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252821\/revisions\/252822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}