{"id":353940,"date":"2021-10-18T06:05:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T20:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=353940"},"modified":"2021-10-18T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T20:05:39","slug":"six-incoming-travelers-test-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/six-incoming-travelers-test-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Six incoming travelers test positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six more incoming travelers have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the CNMI\u2019s total to 288. <\/p>\n<p>According to a Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. news release yesterday, the new cases were identified by travel screening and confirmed positive through arrival testing on Oct. 15 and fifth-day testing on Oct. 16. <\/p>\n<p>The individuals have been quarantined and are being actively monitored, and CHCC\u2019s contact tracing team has already begun reaching out to those who were in closest contact with the six. CHCC also reported that there are currently no active COVID-19-related hospitalizations in the CNMI. <\/p>\n<p>In related news, CHCC chief executive officer Esther Mu\u00f1a and Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force chairman Warren Villagomez were welcomed as guests during Gov. Ralph DLG Torres\u2019 media briefing on KKMP radio last Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Mu\u00f1a shared that the vaccinatecnmi.com dashboard was updated to display how many individuals so far have received additional doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. As of Sunday, 1,659 individuals have received an additional shot. Mu\u00f1a added that 82.9% of the CNMI\u2019s eligible population, or just over 35,000 individuals in the CNMI, are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six more incoming travelers have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the CNMI\u2019s total to 288&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":353941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[492],"class_list":["post-353940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353940","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}