{"id":263264,"date":"2020-07-28T20:58:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=263264"},"modified":"2020-07-28T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T00:58:43","slug":"dfa-reports-lone-filipino-covid-19-case-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/07\/28\/dfa-reports-lone-filipino-covid-19-case-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"DFA reports lone Filipino Covid-19 case abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_256596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256596\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alberta-govt-to-hand-out-non-medical-masks-at-600-fast-food-drive-thrus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-256596 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alberta-govt-to-hand-out-non-medical-masks-at-600-fast-food-drive-thrus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alberta-govt-to-hand-out-non-medical-masks-at-600-fast-food-drive-thrus.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Alberta-govt-to-hand-out-non-medical-masks-at-600-fast-food-drive-thrus-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-256596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The DFA also registered six new recoveries in the Asia Pacific and two new fatalities in the Middle East, bringing the overall tally to 5,426 and 655, respectively. (File photo: @visuals\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday reported one coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) case in the Middle East, raising the total number of Filipinos infected with the disease to 9,305.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA also registered six new recoveries in the Asia Pacific and two new fatalities in the Middle East, bringing the overall tally to 5,426 and 655, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle East\/Africa region has the highest confirmed cases among overseas Filipinos, including recoveries and fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>To date, there are 6,636 infections among Filipinos in the region, 3,872 recoveries, and 383 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>This is followed by Europe with 1,091 diagnosed Filipinos, 488 of whom are active cases and 95 have died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DFA personnel in our foreign service posts continue to actively monitor the status of the Filipino community abroad and work to safely repatriate more of our stranded nationals home,&#8221; the DFA said.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Philippine government repatriated the remains of 54 deceased overseas Filipinos from Saudi Arabia, the third batch since the first ones arrived early this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday reported one coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) case in the Middle East, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":256596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263264","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\/263264","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=263264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263266,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263264\/revisions\/263266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}