{"id":259792,"date":"2020-06-30T04:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T08:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=259792"},"modified":"2020-06-30T04:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T08:23:03","slug":"pinoy-dies-of-covid-19-in-oman-9-undergoing-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/30\/pinoy-dies-of-covid-19-in-oman-9-undergoing-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy dies of Covid-19 in Oman; 9 undergoing treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257031\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/patient-with-iv-line-3845126.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-257031\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/patient-with-iv-line-3845126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/patient-with-iv-line-3845126.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/patient-with-iv-line-3845126-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/patient-with-iv-line-3845126-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/patient-with-iv-line-3845126-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casta\u00f1eda reported that five of the active cases were recently released from critical care while the remaining four are already in a &#8220;better condition&#8221;. (Pexels photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A Filipino infected with coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Oman has passed away, while nine others are undergoing treatment, Philippine Ambassador in Muscat Narciso Casta\u00f1eda said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Sa aming mga<\/em>\u00a0records nine Filipinos\u00a0<em>ang naka<\/em>-confine\u00a0<em>dahil sa<\/em>\u00a0Covid. (In Oman)<em>\u00a0isa pa lang ang namatay,<\/em>\u00a0unfortunately,\u00a0<em>medyo<\/em>\u00a0severe\u00a0<em>ang kanyang kaso<\/em>\u00a0(Based on our records, there are nine Filipinos in the hospital due to Covid. There is one death, unfortunately, the patient&#8217;s case was severe),&#8221; he said in the televised Laging Handa briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Casta\u00f1eda reported that five of the active cases were recently released from critical care while the remaining four are already in a &#8220;better condition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the World Health Organization showed that Oman has about 38,150 Covid-19 patients, 163 of whom have died.<\/p>\n<p>The envoy said the Philippine embassy continues to assist members of the Filipino community who are struggling to get by due to the economic impact of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>As of June 29, at least 6,450 displaced Filipino workers received the USD200-cash assistance from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a remainder that still has to be disbursed and it will be done quite soon I&#8217;m sure,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that more repatriation flights for Filipinos are being arranged by the embassy in coordination with the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Omani government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are scheduling two or three per month flights, hopefully, we&#8217;ll be able to reduce the number of our\u00a0<em>kababayans<\/em>\u00a0who are willing to go home and escape the problems of Covid here in terms of employment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, around 279 repatriates returned to Manila via a special flight facilitated by the government.<\/p>\n<p>Casta\u00f1eda said an additional flight is scheduled for July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 A Filipino infected with coronavirus disease (Covid-19) in Oman has passed away, while nine others are undergoing treatment, Philippine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":257031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259792","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\/259792","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=259792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259795,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259792\/revisions\/259795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}