{"id":253130,"date":"2020-04-24T07:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=253130"},"modified":"2020-04-24T07:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:06:39","slug":"ph-covid-19-cases-exceed-7k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/24\/ph-covid-19-cases-exceed-7k\/","title":{"rendered":"PH Covid-19 cases exceed 7K"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248457\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248457\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-bkc-m0iZ4Sk-unsplash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248457\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-bkc-m0iZ4Sk-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-bkc-m0iZ4Sk-unsplash.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-bkc-m0iZ4Sk-unsplash-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-bkc-m0iZ4Sk-unsplash-768x600.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cdc-bkc-m0iZ4Sk-unsplash-1024x800.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248457\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The department also announced 40 new recoveries and 15 new deaths, bringing the total number of recoveries and fatalities to 762 and 477, respectively. (File Photo by CDC\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Friday a total of 7,192 confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of 4 p.m. today (Friday), April 24, 2020, the Department of Health reports 211 new cases (PH6982 to PH7192) of Covid-19. The total number of cases in the country is now at 7,192,&#8221; the DOH said in a bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>The department also announced 40 new recoveries and 15 new deaths, bringing the total number of recoveries and fatalities to 762 and 477, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Kami po ay taos-pusong nakikiramay sa mga pamilya at kaibigan na naulila sa ating mga kababayang pumanaw dahil sa<\/em>\u00a0virus<em>\u00a0na ito<\/em>\u00a0(We send our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of those who died due to this virus),&#8221; DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a virtual press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, Vergeire said, the Philippines, which has 18 licensed Covid-19 laboratories nationwide, was able to conduct tests on at least 68,765 individuals, 60,004 of whom were negative while 8,645 were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that causes Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that there may be discrepancies between the total confirmed cases and the number of positive individuals as the latter still undergo &#8220;case validation and processing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Vergeire also shared that the DOH Covid-19 tracker website has been updated and will now feature new sets of information, such as the health status of confirmed Covid-19 cases and the health system capacity by region and provinces.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday extended the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) until May 15 in the National Capital Region and several other provinces tagged as high-risk areas.<\/p>\n<p>The ECQ, originally scheduled to end on April 30, was imposed in Luzon to arrest the spread of Covid-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) reported on Friday a total of 7,192 confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","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\/253130","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=253130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253131,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253130\/revisions\/253131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}