{"id":5378,"date":"2020-03-25T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2020-03-25T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T13:05:37","slug":"only-1-negative-covid-19-test-result-needed-for-hospital-discharge-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/only-1-negative-covid-19-test-result-needed-for-hospital-discharge-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 1 negative COVID-19 test result needed for hospital discharge &#8211; DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Department of Health (DOH) announced the revised protocol for discharging patients confirmed to have the coronavirus (COVID-19) as an attempt to decongest hospitals since the number of cases continues to rise.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire, under the new protocol, patients can be discharged if they are clinically asymptomatic and have at least one negative COVID-19 test result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to this, patients needed two negative test results in order to be discharged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, patients who will be discharged after one negative test result will still undergo a 14-day quarantine before they are tested again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of patients who recovered from COVID-19 in the Philippines rose to 26 as of reporting time of March 25. It has claimed 38 people, and infected 636 people nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new protocol, patients can be discharged if they are clinically asymptomatic and have at least one negative COVID-19 test result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2296,2294,639],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsmakers","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-department-of-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}