{"id":264564,"date":"2020-08-08T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T11:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264564"},"modified":"2020-08-08T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T11:55:39","slug":"ex-manila-mayor-alfredo-lim-dies-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/08\/ex-manila-mayor-alfredo-lim-dies-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Manila mayor Alfredo Lim dies of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Lim\u2019s death came a day after incumbent Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso announced that Lim had acquired Covid-19. (File photo by Kendelarosa5357, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Former Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim has succumbed to coronavirus disease (Covid-19), his grandson announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The death of Lim, 90, was confirmed by his grandson, Paul dela Cruz, in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

Dela Cruz bade farewell to Lim but did not spill additional details about his grandfather\u2019s passing.<\/p>\n

\u201cLolo, maraming maraming salamat sa lahat lahat ng bagay na binigay at naitulong mo sa akin para maging maganda at maayos ang buhay ko<\/em>\u00a0(Grandpa, thank you for all that you have done for me to make sure that I would live a good and comfortable life),\u201d he said in his Facebook post.<\/p>\n

Dela Cruz also thanked everyone who had shown concern and offered prayers for Lim.<\/p>\n

Lim\u2019s death came a day after incumbent Manila Mayor Francisco Domagoso announced that Lim had acquired Covid-19.<\/p>\n

A local news outlet initially reported that Lim passed away on Friday due to Covid-19.<\/p>\n

However, Lim\u2019s chief of staff, Ric de Guzman, denied Friday the supposed death of the former long-time mayor.<\/p>\n

Before entering politics, Lim was a police officer.<\/p>\n

Lim served two terms as mayor of Manila City, from 1992 to 1998 and from 2007 to 2013.<\/p>\n

He also became senator and Interior Secretary.<\/p>\n

Lim was also a former chief of the National Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Former Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim has succumbed to coronavirus disease (Covid-19), his grandson announced on Saturday. The death of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":264566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ruth-abbey-gita-carlos","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264564","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=264564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264567,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264564\/revisions\/264567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}