{"id":115401,"date":"2021-02-27T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T10:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115401"},"modified":"2021-02-27T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T10:04:13","slug":"argentine-health-minister-tests-positive-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115401","title":{"rendered":"Argentine health minister tests positive for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/rYTBf2bkz0yB6gd9rFDOqQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTcyMi40\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/uu\/api\/res\/1.2\/EIRptv.JbYhxZQ6IzOyCTQ--~B\/aD02MDI7dz04MDA7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/reuters.com\/73ace8a5413ae6b31073d3e574697de9\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Argentinian Minister of Health, Carla Vizzotti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, Feb 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said she had tested positive for COVID-19 and entered quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I want to tell you that I did a swab as part of the procedure required to enter Congress on March 1, and they informed me of the positive result. Therefore, I will be quarantining over the next few days, following the established protocol,&#8221; she posted to Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The pandemic is not over, let us continue to comply with the care guidelines,&#8221; she added in a second message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The positive test result came only a week after she took over the Health Ministry on Feb 20 after her predecessor resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vizzotti is the third Argentine cabinet minister who has contracted COVID-19, after Minister of Social Development Daniel Arroyo and Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development Juan Cabandie. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Feb 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Argentine Health Minister Carla Vizzotti said she had tested positive for COVID-19 and entered quarantine. &#8220;I want to tell you that I did a swab as part of the procedure required to enter Congress on March 1, and they informed me of the positive result. Therefore, I will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}