{"id":268416,"date":"2020-09-12T05:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T09:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=268416"},"modified":"2020-09-12T05:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T09:54:54","slug":"i-graduated-from-covid-university-kakai-bautista-says-shes-now-covid-19-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/09\/12\/i-graduated-from-covid-university-kakai-bautista-says-shes-now-covid-19-free\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I graduated from COVID University:&#8217; Kakai Bautista says she&#8217;s now COVID-19-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CE-4hzLHISD\/<\/p>\n<p>Comedienne Kakai Bautista was elated to share on Friday, September 11, that she &#8220;graduated from COVID University.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All smiles in a video of her while having Michael Buble&#8217;s &#8220;Feeling Good&#8221; as her background music, Bautista said in her Instagram post that she tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but was asymptomatic, and on her 14th day, she underwent another test and the result turned out negative this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;THANK YOU LORD,&#8221; were the first words she said as her reaction to her health update, adding that she wants the public to be more aware of COVID-19 that&#8217;s why she decided to share the news with them.<\/p>\n<p>The comedienne recalled that there were only two things she had in mind after learning that she got infected. First, she told the Lord that &#8220;<em>hindi pa ako pwedeng mamatay kase mababawasan ng maganda ang mundo <\/em>(I cannot die yet because beautiful people in the world will be lessened),&#8221; and second, &#8220;Lord, I surrender everything to you.&#8221; After praying, Bautista said she felt fine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Covid is not a Joke. <em>OO, sakit sya, <\/em>virus<em> sya. Pero mas PARANG ikamamatay mo ang<\/em> FEAR AND ANXIETY <em>&#8216;pag nagkaroon ka<\/em> (Yes, it is a disease, [it is caused by] a virus. But fear and anxiety are more likely to be the cause of your death once you contracted it),&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>NagpakaNormal ako, dahil alam kong mas magkakasakit ako kapag HINDI ako umayos sa isip at sa gawa<\/em> (I acted normal because I know I won&#8217;t get better if I do not come to my senses),&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Bautista said she will be sharing further details about her battle with COVID-19 in her vlog soon.<\/p>\n<p>Beating the virus, Bautista cheered up others who are also fighting COVID-19, saying that all these struggles will soon end and that people should keep holding on because there is &#8216;hope&#8217; and they have &#8216;faith.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Isa lang ang dapat<\/em> positive (There should only be one thing that is positive) \u2014 MINDSET,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of Instagram stories, Bautista thanked those who sent her heartening messages and advised the public to take good care of their health.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Wala talagang <\/em>exemption<em> eh. Ke maingat ka <\/em>or<em> hindi ka maingat, lahat tayo pwedeng magkaroon ng<\/em> COVID (There is really no exemption. Whether you are careful or not, all of us can acquire COVID),&#8221; she told them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_268423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268423\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/119229066_371859653849271_3575475408863420634_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-268423\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/119229066_371859653849271_3575475408863420634_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/119229066_371859653849271_3575475408863420634_n.jpg 393w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/119229066_371859653849271_3575475408863420634_n-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Screenshot from Kakai Bautista&#8217;s Instagram story)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CE-4hzLHISD\/ Comedienne Kakai Bautista was elated to share on Friday, September 11, that she &#8220;graduated from COVID University.&#8221; All smiles &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":268422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268416","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=268416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268424,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268416\/revisions\/268424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}