{"id":167510,"date":"2021-11-02T09:32:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=167510"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:11:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:11:55","slug":"samana-governor-fired-for-being-too-outspoken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/02\/samana-governor-fired-for-being-too-outspoken\/","title":{"rendered":"Samana governor fired for being too outspoken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Elsa-A-de-Leon-A-Gob-Samana-Radar-24-e1635862304900.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167530\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader fired the governor of Samana, Elsa de Le\u00f3n who was too frank. Frustrated with the thousands of residents in Samana who have not yet been vaccinated, the governor had stated last week:<br>\u201cI will hold a party for each of those who were not vaccinated and died of Covid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saman\u00e1 has one of the lowest vaccination rates. Only 52% of the population has two vaccines. Nevertheless, Samana has one of the lowest positivity rates with 5.08%, with only 1,342 registered cases and 10 deaths since 1 March 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/pais\/abinader-destituye-gobernadora-de-samana-1179652\">Noticias SIN<\/a><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/video-gobernadora-de-samana-por-cada-muerto-de-covid-que-no-se-haya-vacunado-voy-a-hacer-una-fiesta\/\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 November 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Luis Abinader fired the governor of Samana, Elsa de Le\u00f3n who was too frank. Frustrated with the thousands of residents in Samana who have not yet been vaccinated, the governor had stated last week:\u201cI will hold a party for each of those who were not vaccinated and died of Covid.\u201d Saman\u00e1 has one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/11\/02\/samana-governor-fired-for-being-too-outspoken\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167510"}],"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=167510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167531,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167510\/revisions\/167531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}