To keep you in the loop on the recent COVID-19 situation in the Philippines, Philippine Primer rounded up the latest updates you need to know:<\/p>\n
Number of cases<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n As of 4 p.m. today the Department of Health (DOH)\u00a0recorded\u00a0200\u00a0new confirmed cases\u00a0<\/strong>of COVID-19 in the country,\u00a0bringing the total number of cases to\u00a06,459<\/strong>.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialDOHgov\/photos\/a.157979910879936\/3244691355542094\/?type=3&theater<\/p>\n DOH also\u00a0reported\u00a041 recoveries and 19 deaths\u00a0resulting in a total of\u00a0613<\/strong>\u00a0recoveries<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0428<\/strong>\u00a0mortalities<\/b>.<\/p>\n DILG directs\u00a0barangay captains to post list of SAP beneficiaries<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n As a measure to identify the beneficiaries for the Social Amelioration Program (SAP) financial assistance under the Department of Social Welfare and Development, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has directed\u00a0barangay captains to post the list of their target beneficiaries in conspicuous places within their communities.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dilg.philippines\/photos\/a.436638536524746\/1340942622760995\/?type=3&theater<\/p>\n This action is to maintain transparency and to also have feedback from the residences as to who should receive the said assistance.<\/p>\n Zamboanga del Sur restricts entry to the province<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZambosurOfficialPage\/posts\/2494250884174045?__tn__=-R<\/p>\n Effective today, April 20, the entry of private vehicles in the province of Zamboanga del Sur has now been restricted. However, said restriction will not apply to those under EO No. 2020-09 and 2020-10; as well as those allowed under IATF guidelines. The restriction is in effect until the lift of the Enhanced Community Quarantine.<\/p>\n Sources: Department of Health (Philippines)<\/a>,\u00a0DILG Philippines<\/a>,\u00a0dilg.gov.ph<\/a>, Victory Zamboanga del Sur<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To keep you in the loop on the recent COVID-19 situation in the Philippines, Philippine Primer rounded up the latest updates you need to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12985],"tags":[13353,13354,13352],"class_list":["post-55603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19-daily-update","tag-covid-19-update","tag-primer-covid-19-update-april-20","tag-primer-daily-covid-19-update"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/03\/Primer_COVID-19-Daily-Update_featured-image-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55608,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55603\/revisions\/55608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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