{"id":257371,"date":"2020-06-07T07:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257371"},"modified":"2020-06-07T07:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T11:02:14","slug":"covid-19-cases-in-ph-now-21895-deaths-surpass-1k-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/07\/covid-19-cases-in-ph-now-21895-deaths-surpass-1k-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 cases in PH now 21,895; deaths surpass 1K mark"},"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=\"wp-image-248457 size-full\" 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 new cases account for 378 &#8220;fresh&#8221; test results or those reported within the last three days and 177 late cases or backlogs validated only recently. (File Photo by CDC\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The number of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the Philippines has climbed to 21,895 after the Department of Health (DOH) recorded 555 new cases Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The new cases account for 378 &#8220;fresh&#8221; test results or those reported within the last three days and 177 late cases or backlogs validated only recently.<\/p>\n<p>Of the overall tally, 89 are new recoveries raising the number to 4,530.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, total deaths breached the 1,000-mark with nine new fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire earlier reported that the DOH is looking at accrediting about 58 laboratories by mid-July 2020 to ramp up efforts to contain Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>There are 52 laboratories so far licensed to detect SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain causing the Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>And of these laboratories, 40 can use reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests while the remaining 12 are using the alternative GeneXpert technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The number of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the Philippines has climbed to 21,895 after the Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257371","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=257371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257372,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257371\/revisions\/257372"}],"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=257371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}