{"id":253756,"date":"2020-05-02T06:18:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T10:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=253756"},"modified":"2020-05-02T06:18:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T10:18:25","slug":"156-new-covid-19-cases-reported-in-ph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/02\/156-new-covid-19-cases-reported-in-ph\/","title":{"rendered":"156 new Covid-19 cases reported in PH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_252915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252915\" style=\"width: 2400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tai-s-captures-Lhb-zwQ-QGI-unsplash-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252915\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tai-s-captures-Lhb-zwQ-QGI-unsplash-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tai-s-captures-Lhb-zwQ-QGI-unsplash-1.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tai-s-captures-Lhb-zwQ-QGI-unsplash-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tai-s-captures-Lhb-zwQ-QGI-unsplash-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/tai-s-captures-Lhb-zwQ-QGI-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The overall recoveries now stand at 1,124, with 40 new treated patients recorded on May 2. (File photo: Tai&#8217;s Captures\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday reported 156 new cases of coronavirus infections in the Philippines, bringing the total to 8,928.<\/p>\n<p>The overall recoveries now stand at 1,124, with 40 new treated patients recorded on May 2.<\/p>\n<p>In a bulletin, the DOH said 24 new coronavirus disease 2019-related (Covid-19) deaths were also reported, bringing the total to 603.<\/p>\n<p>Based on DOH&#8217;s May 1 situation report, at least 97,507 unique individual tests have been done, of which 10,700 turned out positive, 86,649 negative, 76 equivocal, and 80 invalid due to poor specimen quality.<\/p>\n<p>The DOH is currently working on strengthening the country&#8217;s response against Covid-19 by augmenting the health workforce.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the department reiterated the hiring for physicians, nurses, medical technologists, and other support health personnel on a contract of service basis, for a minimum of three months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;DOH will also ensure the safety and security of its health care workers by providing assistance and support amidst the Covid-19 situation,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday reported 156 new cases of coronavirus infections in the Philippines, bringing the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":252915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253756","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\/253756","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=253756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253759,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253756\/revisions\/253759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}