{"id":254740,"date":"2020-05-13T22:52:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=254740"},"modified":"2020-05-13T22:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:52:31","slug":"health-care-workers-with-covid-19-now-2125-recoveries-at-669","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/13\/health-care-workers-with-covid-19-now-2125-recoveries-at-669\/","title":{"rendered":"Health care workers with Covid-19 now 2,125; recoveries at 669"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249499\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249499\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/man-putting-on-coveralls-3951417-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meanwhile, the total number of health care workers who recovered from the disease rose to 669. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The total number of confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases among health care workers in the country has reached 2,125, after 58 more persons contracted the disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of the total number, 1,421 are active cases. We&#8217;re happy to report that we have not recorded any death due to Covid-19 among our health care workers yesterday. The total number of deaths among our health care workers is 35,&#8221; Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a mix of English and Filipino during a virtual presser on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the total number of health care workers who recovered from the disease rose to 669.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday, the DOH reported that the total number of nurses infected with Covid-19 stood at 779, with 642 doctors or physicians, 132 nursing assistants, 73 medical technologists, 40 radiologic technologists, and 221 non-medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>Vergeire noted that the number of health care workers infected with Covid-19 started to drop on April 11.<\/p>\n<p>For the emergency hiring of health care workers, the DOH has received a total of 88 facility requests as of May 12.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We already\u00a0have 4,003 slots approved for hiring in 74 hospitals and quarantine facilities, Philippine Arena Covid-19 facility, and QI (Quezon Institute) quarantine facility. We have 1,237 personnel hired in 19 hospitals and quarantine facilities,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total number of hired personnel, about 126 are doctors or physicians; 313 are nurses; 150 are medical technologists, 28 are respiratory therapists; 49 are radiologic technologists; three are medical equipment technicians; 246 are nursing attendants; 44 are administrative assistants; 99 are administrative aides; and 179 belong to other designations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The total number of confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases among health care workers in the country has reached &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":249499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254740","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\/254740","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=254740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254741,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254740\/revisions\/254741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}