{"id":62406,"date":"2015-10-03T19:24:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=62406"},"modified":"2015-10-03T19:24:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T11:24:10","slug":"embassy-pinay-nurse-with-mers-showing-signs-of-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/10\/03\/embassy-pinay-nurse-with-mers-showing-signs-of-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Embassy: Pinay nurse with MERS showing signs of improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17951\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17951\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501.jpg\" alt=\"Shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_193373501-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A Filipina nurse who contracted the deadly Middle East Coronavirus in Saudi Arabia is showing signs of improvement, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The DFA declined to disclose the identity of the victim, but said she works at a hospital in Jeddah. She got infected two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter several days of treatment in the ICU, the patient showed good improvement and was unhooked from the mechanical ventilator a few days ago and already breathing on her own,\u201d a DFA statement said. \u201cLaboratory test for MERS CoV virus turned positive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Filipina nurse is expected to be moved out of the ICU and transferred to an isolation room in a few days, the DFA added.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Filipino nurses are deployed in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia, where the virus is prevalent.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, 10 Filipinos, mostly health workers, have died from MERS in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A Filipina nurse who contracted the deadly Middle East Coronavirus in Saudi Arabia is showing signs of improvement, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-michaela-del-callar","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406","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=62406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}