{"id":138198,"date":"2020-03-24T13:16:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T13:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=138198"},"modified":"2020-03-24T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:19:30","slug":"dominican-catholic-church-bishop-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/24\/dominican-catholic-church-bishop-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Catholic Church: Bishop tests positive for Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Obispo-Fausto-Ramon-Mejia-Vallejo-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Obispo-Fausto-Ramon-Mejia-Vallejo-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Obispo-Fausto-Ramon-Mejia-Vallejo-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED) confirmed that Monsignor Fausto Ram\u00f3n Mej\u00eda Vallejo, bishop of the diocese of San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, has tested positive for the coronavirus. In a statement, the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic said that Mej\u00eda Vallejo\u2019s health was stable. The church urged that all Dominicans take preventive measures and stay at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>San Francisco de Macor\u00eds is the capital of the province of Duarte, where the first case of local transmission was reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/episcopado-dominicano-lo-mas-reciente-sobre-el-obispo-dio-positivo-al-covid-19\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>24 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Episcopal Conference (CED) confirmed that Monsignor Fausto Ram\u00f3n Mej\u00eda Vallejo, bishop of the diocese of San Francisco de Macor\u00eds, has tested positive for the coronavirus. In a statement, the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Republic said that Mej\u00eda Vallejo\u2019s health was stable. The church urged that all Dominicans take preventive measures and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/24\/dominican-catholic-church-bishop-tests-positive-for-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138246,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138198\/revisions\/138246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}