{"id":259543,"date":"2020-06-27T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259543"},"modified":"2020-06-27T05:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T09:00:41","slug":"tatay-elmer-gets-tested-for-covid-19-thanks-to-angel-locsins-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/27\/tatay-elmer-gets-tested-for-covid-19-thanks-to-angel-locsins-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tatay Elmer\u2019 gets tested for COVID-19 thanks to Angel Locsin\u2019s auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CB5wTokFSH4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 19% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;\">View this post on Instagram<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12.5% 0;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;\">\n<div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto;\">\n<div style=\"width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CB5wTokFSH4\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dahil sa pagsuporta nyo sa Shop and Share, natulungan nyo po sila Tatay na kasama sa grupo ng jeepney drivers at operators na na-expose sa COVID-19 upang makapagpa-test sa Red Cross noong Miyerkules. Marami pa po sa ating mga kababayan na tulad nila ang inyong matutulungan. Taos puso po ang aming pasasalamat. @shopandshareph<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/therealangellocsin\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Angel Locsin<\/a> (@therealangellocsin) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2020-06-26T14:55:41+00:00\">Jun 26, 2020 at 7:55am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n72-year-old Elder Cordero of \u2018PISTON 6\u2019 was finally able to take a swab test for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), after being exposed to it when he was detained.<\/p>\n<p>Angel Locsin, dubbed by some as the <em>real-life Darna<\/em>, continues to be an angel to others through her co-founded auction <em>Shop &amp; Share<\/em> that aims to \u201chelp our fellow Filipinos who need to be tested during this COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an Instagram post, she thanked everyone who supported the auction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Natulungan nyo po sila Tatay na kasama sa grupo ng<\/em> jeepney drivers <em>at<\/em> operators <em>na na<\/em>-expose <em>sa<\/em> COVID-19 <em>upang makapagpa<\/em>-test <em>sa<\/em> Red Cross <em>noong Miyerkules <\/em>(You were able to help <em>Tatay<\/em> and his fellow jeepney drivers and operations who got exposed to COVID-19, to be tested in Red Cross last Wednesday),\u201d Angel confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Marami pa po sa ating mga kababayan na tulad nila ang inyong matutulungan. Taos puso po ang aming pasasalamat<\/em> (A lot of our countrymen like them will still be helped. Have our utmost gratitude),\u201d she continued on her personal post.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tatay Elmer<\/em> became viral on social media after he was arrested, along with five other jeepney drivers and operators who called for the government for relief aids, as well as, to appeal the ban on jeepney operations which is their source of livelihood. Two members of PISTON 6 tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Angel, a vocal critic and a philanthropist, pleaded to the authorities through an Instagram story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you cannot help them, let them go home. They just want food for their families. <em>Maraming gutom. Sabihin na nating may natanggap, pero hindi natin alam kung<\/em> enough <em>na ba yun para sa pamilya nila para mapilitan silang lumabas. Konting puso<\/em> and consideration (A lot are hungry. Let\u2019s say that they received help, but we do not know if that is enough for them and their families, which could\u2019ve urged them to go out. Please have some heart and consideration),\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Other celebrities also called for the release of the six.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shop &amp; Share<\/em> by Angel and fellow actress Anne Curtis Smith-Eusaff, was formed to raise funds that will cover the expense for testing kits \u201cto the underprivileged who are affected by this global crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pursue this mission humbly, with compassion and kindness in hopes of aiding the government in increasing testing for COVID-19 in our own little way,\u201d it said on one of its Instagram posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; View this post on Instagram &nbsp; Dahil sa pagsuporta nyo sa Shop and Share, natulungan nyo po sila Tatay &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":259561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259543","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=259543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259562,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259543\/revisions\/259562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}