{"id":255336,"date":"2020-05-19T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255336"},"modified":"2020-05-19T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T11:18:00","slug":"recoveries-among-overseas-filipinos-stand-at-849-dfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/19\/recoveries-among-overseas-filipinos-stand-at-849-dfa\/","title":{"rendered":"Recoveries among overseas Filipinos stand at 849: DFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_254430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254430\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ofws.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-254430\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ofws.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ofws.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ofws-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-254430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez noted that the DFA is also working to get repatriation flights for Filipinos affected by the pandemic. (File: Contributed photo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The recoveries among overseas Filipinos with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) now stood at 849 while the death toll is at 280, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>As of May 19, the department logged 21 new recoveries in two regions and one new death in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 26 new confirmed cases raised the overall tally to 2,431. Filipino patients undergoing treatment are over 1,300.<\/p>\n<p>Of the confirmed cases, 447 were registered in the Asia Pacific region, 736 in Europe, 705 in Middle East\/Africa, and 543 in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest DFA data, at least 121 are still undergoing treatment in the Asia Pacific region, 424 in Europe, 567 in Middle East\/Africa, and 190 in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs Assistant Secretary Eduardo Me\u00f1ez noted that the DFA is also working to get repatriation flights for Filipinos affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Over 27,000 Filipinos returned to the Philippines since February 2020, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The recoveries among overseas Filipinos with coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) now stood at 849 while the death toll is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":254430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/255336","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255341,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255336\/revisions\/255341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}