{"id":255610,"date":"2020-05-21T06:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=255610"},"modified":"2020-05-21T06:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T10:16:30","slug":"no-pinoys-infected-with-covid-19-in-sweden-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/05\/21\/no-pinoys-infected-with-covid-19-in-sweden-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"No Pinoys infected with Covid-19 in Sweden: envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248077\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-248077\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-masks-on-blue-background-3786155-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are also zero patients under investigation in the country, Dado added. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 No Filipino has so far been reported infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Sweden, Charge d\u2019 Affaires Raul Dado said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far,\u00a0<em>walang may sakit<\/em>\u00a0and that is a positive thing (So far, no one has contracted the disease and that is a positive thing). We&#8217;re also monitoring their situation,&#8221; he said at the Laging Handa briefing when asked about the situation of the Filipino community there.<\/p>\n<p>There are also zero patients under investigation in the country, Dado added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The advantage in Sweden is (the) low population density of less than 20 people per square kilometer and a lot of discipline. So there\u2019s natural social distancing,&#8221; he said in a separate email.<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 15,000 overseas Filipinos are employed as health workers, engineers, mining professionals, and administrative staff in Sweden. Some of them are working in the fashion, culinary, service, and related industries.<\/p>\n<p>Dado said four Filipino health care workers are set to arrive in Manila by next week after seeking repatriation assistance from the newly reopened Philippine Embassy in Stockholm.<\/p>\n<p>The four have complained about the &#8220;unsafe practice&#8221; at the clinics they were working in, including the &#8220;no masks allowed&#8221; rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reported this to the Swedish government, which has assured us that they will impose masks and protective gear and penalize erring clinics,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dado advised Filipinos in the country to report workplaces that do not practice proper health protocols.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured them that the embassy would facilitate their repatriation should they request it.<\/p>\n<p>Latest data from the World Health Organization showed 30,799 confirmed Covid-19 cases in Sweden, 3,743 of whom have died.<\/p>\n<p>One of the fatalities was Honorary Consul General to Stockholm Erik Belfrage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 No Filipino has so far been reported infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in Sweden, Charge d\u2019 Affaires &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255610","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\/255610","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=255610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255612,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255610\/revisions\/255612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}