{"id":260062,"date":"2020-07-01T05:55:55","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T09:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=260062"},"modified":"2020-07-01T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:11:08","slug":"house-confirms-9th-coronavirus-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/01\/house-confirms-9th-coronavirus-case\/","title":{"rendered":"House confirms 9th coronavirus case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_228728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-228728\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-228728 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs.jpg 950w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Congress-asked-to-restore-budget-for-63-mobile-training-labs-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-228728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This marks the ninth confirmed case of a House employee contracting the virus. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HouseofRepsPH\/photos\/a.10150690050162271\/10155355702737271\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HouseofRepsPH\/\">House of Representatives of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Another employee of the House of Representatives has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), House Secretary-General Luis Montales reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Montales said the infected employee, who is assigned at the chamber&#8217;s Internal Audit Department, last reported for work on June 24.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the ninth confirmed case of a House employee contracting the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Protocols for handling positive cases and their close contacts are being observed. Let&#8217;s remain cautious; let&#8217;s continue following our health and safety guidelines,&#8221; Montales said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Health reported a total of 38,511 Covid-19 cases in the country, with 10,438 recoveries and 1,270 deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Another employee of the House of Representatives has tested positive for the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), House Secretary-General Luis Montales &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":228728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260062","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=260062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260063,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260062\/revisions\/260063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}