{"id":321051,"date":"2020-04-15T06:03:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=321051"},"modified":"2020-04-15T06:03:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:03:47","slug":"2-new-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-the-cnmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2-new-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-the-cnmi\/","title":{"rendered":"2 new COVID-19 cases  confirmed in the CNMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-321054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/fg-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two new COVID-19\u00a0cases were confirmed yesterday, bringing the CNMI\u2019s total confirmed case count to 13.<\/p>\n<p>Both new cases are male: a 55-year-old and a 61-year-old. According to a statement from the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force and the Commonwealth Health Care Corp., both are in stable condition and are being closely monitored by CHCC medical teams. These cases are suggestive of community transmission within a cluster of linked cases. CHCC has already initiated contact tracing for the most immediate contacts (close family members, friends, and associates) of these confirmed cases. To ensure community transmission is limited, CHCC will expand contact tracing efforts. CHCC continues to work with the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force to expand designated isolation areas to closely monitor the well-being of individuals with symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>As of April 14, 2020, the CNMI has submitted 59 specimens for COVID-19 testing. Of these 59 specimens, 55 have been processed, resulting in\u00a013 positive\u00a0specimens,\u00a042 negative\u00a0specimens, and two deaths. CHCC awaits the results of four specimens. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new COVID-19\u00a0cases were confirmed yesterday, bringing the CNMI\u2019s total confirmed case count to 13&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-321051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cnmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}