{"id":318,"date":"2023-12-05T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=318"},"modified":"2023-12-08T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T09:52:32","slug":"president-marcos-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2023\/12\/05\/president-marcos-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENT MARCOS TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. tested positive for Covid-19, Malaca\u00f1ang on Tuesday (December 5) said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>According to the Presidential Communications Office (PCO), the President will be under isolation for five days.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos has tested positive for Covid-19. Upon medical advice, he will observe a period of isolation for five days,&#8221; the PCO said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The PCO added that the President remains fit to carry out his duties and will be continuing his scheduled meetings via teleconference.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Updates on his health will be provided as available,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The PCO said Marcos encouraged the public over the holiday season &#8220;to take precautions to safeguard their health, such as vaccinating and voluntary mask-wearing when entering crowded places.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>This is the third time the President has contracted the coronavirus disease. He last <a href=\"https:\/\/mb.com.ph\/2022\/07\/08\/marcos-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\">tested positive<\/a> for Covid-19 in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>His first bout with Covid-19 was in March 2020 during the height of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. tested positive for Covid-19, Malaca&ntilde;ang on Tuesday (December 5) said. According to the Presidential Communications Office (PCO), the President will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}