{"id":355965,"date":"2021-11-17T06:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=355965"},"modified":"2021-11-17T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T20:05:21","slug":"torres-says-covid-not-going-to-leave-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/torres-says-covid-not-going-to-leave-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres says COVID not going to leave anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_355516\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355516\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Ralph-DLG.-Torres15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-355516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Ralph-DLG.-Torres15-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-355516\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ralph DLG Torres<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres underscored Friday the importance of vaccinating children from COVID-19 as he believes the virus is not going to leave the CNMI or even the rest of the world anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at his regular radio press briefing, Torres emphasized the need to continue vaccinating children ages 5 to 11 and urged adults who are still unvaccinated to get the shots now.<\/p>\n<p>He said COVID-19 is going to be part of the norm in the CNMI sooner than later. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to miss that boat to get vaccinated,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question about Korean tourists under the travel bubble program, the governor said they have not gotten any communication from South Korea government on concerns about the recent cases of community transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said they have worked so hard for the CNMI community to be the safest place in the world from this pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that we are still at that,\u201d he said, citing that they have reached all of their goals from Day 1 such as providing enough Personal Protective Equipment to health professions, schools, all branches government, and private sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done our shut down. We have done everything we can to protect our community knowing the fact that there is no program that can 100% safeguard everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Torres said the CNMI is still safe, but doesn\u2019t mean that people should not be careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ralph DLG Torres underscored Friday the importance of vaccinating children from COVID-19 as he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":355516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355965","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}