{"id":14745,"date":"2020-07-27T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/public-health-alert-after-covid-19-case-attended-santa-venera-feast\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T13:36:00","slug":"public-health-alert-after-covid-19-case-attended-santa-venera-feast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/public-health-alert-after-covid-19-case-attended-santa-venera-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"Public health alert after Covid-19 case attended Santa Venera feast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public health alert after Covid-19 case attended Santa Venera feast<\/p>\n<p>A public health alert has been issued after a Covid-19 case attended the Santa Venera feast last week.<\/p>\n<p>Health authorities said that the person, who was a local, sporadic case, attended the village&rsquo;s band club on Wednesday 22 July and the village feast march on Thursday 23 July.<\/p>\n<p>People who attended these events are encouraged by health authorities to phone 111 to arrange an appointment to get tested for Covid-19, and are also advised to closely follow their health for symptoms for 14 days.<\/p>\n<p>It was not mentioned when the person in question tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-27\/local-news\/Telling-people-to-party-in-their-thousands-get-drunk-and-behave-responsibly-is-nonsense-MAM-6736225522\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The alert comes at when calls for mass gatherings such as parties and feast marches to be banned again<\/a>&nbsp;have increased. This is owing to a recent spike in cases mainly due to a cluster of cases which spread from a weekend long party at a hotel some ten days ago &#8211; a cluster which now numbers 16 people.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2020-07-27\/local-news\/Public-health-alert-after-Covid-19-case-attended-Santa-Venera-feast-6736225536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Public health alert after Covid-19 case attended Santa Venera feast<\/a><br \/>\n{$excerpt:n}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public health alert after Covid-19 case attended Santa Venera feast A public health alert has been issued after a Covid-19 case attended the Santa Venera feast last week. Health authorities said that the person, who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-14745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}