{"id":145653,"date":"2020-08-18T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=145653"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:19:33","slug":"paho-recommends-lockdown-for-the-capital-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/08\/18\/paho-recommends-lockdown-for-the-capital-city\/","title":{"rendered":"PAHO recommends lockdown for the capital city"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PAHO-logo-e1595898451228.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144509\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recommends a one or two weeks lockdown in Greater Santo Domingo and Santiago to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. He said the timing is right with the start of the new government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Marcos Espinal, chief of the Department of Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis at the WHO&#8217;s regional office for the Western Hemisphere, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), was interviewed by List\u00edn Diario editor Miguel Franjul and journalist Doris Pantale\u00f3n for their program &#8220;Cita con el Covid.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Espinal pointed to the high positivity rate of the disease in the Dominican Republic, at over 30%. The positivity rate has never been under 20%, when it should be 10% or less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated that no country has real data on the incidence of Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Raquel Pe\u00f1a said on Monday that the Health Cabinet will announce the plan to deal with the virus on Wednesday, 19 August 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/08\/18\/631250\/la-ops-propone-cerrar-la-capital-una-semana-o-mas\">List\u00edn Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 August 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) recommends a one or two weeks lockdown in Greater Santo Domingo and Santiago to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus. He said the timing is right with the start of the new government. Dr. Marcos Espinal, chief of the Department of Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/08\/18\/paho-recommends-lockdown-for-the-capital-city\/\" 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\/145653"}],"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=145653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145728,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145653\/revisions\/145728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}