{"id":257835,"date":"2020-06-12T05:21:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T09:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257835"},"modified":"2020-06-12T05:21:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T09:21:33","slug":"filipino-community-in-mainland-china-covid-free-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/12\/filipino-community-in-mainland-china-covid-free-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino community in mainland China Covid-free: envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_248198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248198\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-blue-background-3786126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-248198 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-blue-background-3786126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-blue-background-3786126.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-blue-background-3786126-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-blue-background-3786126-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/face-mask-on-blue-background-3786126-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-248198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Among the Filipino community, not a single case. It&#8217;s a Covid-free Filipino community here,&#8221; Sta. Romana said in the virtual Laging Handa briefing. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 There are no active cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among members of the Filipino community in mainland China after the lone infected Filipino worker there recovered, Philippine Ambassador to Beijing Jose Santiago Sta. Romana reported Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Among the Filipino community, not a single case. It&#8217;s a Covid-free Filipino community here,&#8221; Sta. Romana said in the virtual Laging Handa briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He said one Filipino who returned to China in March had tested positive but has recovered and is now back to work.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the latest data from World Health Organization, China has 84,652 confirmed coronavirus infections, lower than other nations with six-digit cases.<\/p>\n<p>Sta. Romana attributed the continued decrease in cases to the technology China employed on contact tracing and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Among these is the use of a mobile application to monitor cases, as well as drones when the outbreak was at its peak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They employed a lot of technology to be able to control the epidemic. Now, the condition here is good,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, more than 200 Filipinos are waiting for the resumption of regular flights, or at least when fares have dropped, to fly back to Manila.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And those who are asking for help, because of the price right now, we are also waiting for the price to go down. But basically, it&#8217;s the availability of flights,&#8221; Sta. Romana said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 There are no active cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) among members of the Filipino community in mainland &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":248198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257835","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\/257835","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=257835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257837,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257835\/revisions\/257837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}