{"id":116519,"date":"2021-03-07T12:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T04:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116519"},"modified":"2021-03-07T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T04:44:02","slug":"covid-19-paraguay-reshuffles-cabinet-after-violent-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116519","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Paraguay reshuffles cabinet after violent protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Paraguay-reshuffles-cabinet-after-violent-Covid-19-protests.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Paraguay-reshuffles-cabinet-after-violent-Covid-19-protests.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ASUNCION, March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Paraguay\u2019s President Mario Abdo Benitez announced a cabinet reshuffle after violent street protests over the<br>government\u2019s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He announced new people would be appointed to the ministries of health,<br>education, women\u2019s issues, and civil affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am sure that the men and women named will do their utmost to confront<br>this moment of crisis that the country is enduring,\u201d the president said on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thousands of protestors clashed with police late Friday, ransacking shops<br>and setting cars on fire. A total of 21 people were injured, hospital<br>officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paraguayans are angry over a shortage of personal protective gear and other equipment to confront the health crisis and a collapse in the healthcare system. The health minister already resigned Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, another 5,000 people came out to protest but this time the<br>rally was peaceful, and they called for the president\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Friday, Paraguay had reported 165,811 coronavirus cases and 3,278<br>deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is awaiting the arrival of four million vaccine doses from the Convax<br>system of the World Health Organization and a million doses of the Russian<br>Sputnik 5, for a population of just over seven million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, Paraguay has received just 4,000 doses of vaccines from Russia,<br>intended for intensive care personnel. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASUNCION, March 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Paraguay\u2019s President Mario Abdo Benitez announced a cabinet reshuffle after violent street protests over thegovernment\u2019s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. He announced new people would be appointed to the ministries of health,education, women\u2019s issues, and civil affairs. \u201cI am sure that the men and women named will do their utmost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116520,"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\/116519"}],"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=116519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}