{"id":139901,"date":"2020-04-02T11:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T11:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=139901"},"modified":"2020-04-02T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:23:44","slug":"several-legislators-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/02\/several-legislators-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Several legislators test positive for the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Congreso-Nacional-CDN-e1546862199262.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120784\"\/><figcaption>Photo: CDN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The media is reporting on the increasing number of legislators and their relatives that have tested positive for Covid-19. Gustavo S\u00e1nchez, spokesman for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in the Chamber of Deputies is now interned at the the National Police General Teaching Hospital. At the same hospital, San Pedro de Macoris senator Jose Hazim is interned with the same disease. San Cristobal deputy Manuel Diaz is also infected. Others are a daughter of the vice president of the chamber of deputies, Angela Pozo, and the husband of deputy Ginette Bournigal who have also tested positive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several legislators that are waiting for results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last session in which the legislators had been present was when they declared the State of Emergency on Thursday, 19 March 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/04\/01\/varios-legisladores-y-familiares-de-congresistas-han-dado-positivo-al-coronavirus\/\">El Caribe<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/coronavirus-llega-al-congreso-nacional-hay-dos-diputados-contagiados\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is reporting on the increasing number of legislators and their relatives that have tested positive for Covid-19. Gustavo S\u00e1nchez, spokesman for the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) in the Chamber of Deputies is now interned at the the National Police General Teaching Hospital. At the same hospital, San Pedro de Macoris senator Jose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/02\/several-legislators-test-positive-for-the-coronavirus\/\" 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\/139901"}],"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=139901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139926,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139901\/revisions\/139926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}