{"id":348261,"date":"2021-07-19T19:19:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=348261"},"modified":"2021-07-19T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T09:19:57","slug":"breaking-news-another-traveler-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/breaking-news-another-traveler-tests-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Another traveler tests positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s total COVID-19 cases rose to 188 yesterday when the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. and the COVID-19 Task Force said a traveler tested positive via travel screening and confirmed diagnosis through fifth-day testing last July 17.<\/p>\n<p>CHCC said the individual has been moved to the designated isolation area at the Kanoa Resort alternate care site for close monitoring. The CHCC Communicable Disease Investigation\/Inspection team has initiated contact tracing for contacts with the highest risk of exposure. <\/p>\n<p>Out of the 188 total COVID-19 cases in the CNMI, 151 were identified by travel screening while 37 were local transmissions.<\/p>\n<p>CHCC added that based on what they know about vaccines for other diseases and early data from clinical trials, experts believe that getting a COVID-19 vaccine also helps keep you and your loved ones from getting seriously ill even if you do get COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI\u2019s total COVID-19 cases rose to 188 yesterday when the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":334172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348261","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}