{"id":771,"date":"2020-03-18T19:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=771"},"modified":"2020-03-18T19:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T23:36:08","slug":"first-member-of-congress-republican-mario-diaz-balart-of-florida-tests-positive-for-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2020\/03\/18\/first-member-of-congress-republican-mario-diaz-balart-of-florida-tests-positive-for-covid19\/","title":{"rendered":"First member of Congress, Republican Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, tests positive for #COVID19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-776\" class=\"wp-image-776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/75015767_3046073655464326_1626565507257729024_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/75015767_3046073655464326_1626565507257729024_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/75015767_3046073655464326_1626565507257729024_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/75015767_3046073655464326_1626565507257729024_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Florida), far left, during a visit to the Seminole Tribe&#8217;s Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Seminole Museum in October 2019. Photo: Mario Diaz Balart<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mariodiazbalart.house.gov\">Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart<\/a> (R-Florida) has tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first member of Congress to do so. In a post on social media, he said he placed himself in self-quarantine last Friday and has been working from an apartment in Washington, D.C. His district in Florida includes Miccosukee and Seminole homelands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m feeling much better.  However, it&#39;s important that everyone take this seriously and follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDCgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CDCgov<\/a> guidelines in order to avoid getting sick &amp; mitigate the spread of this virus. We must continue to work together to emerge stronger as a country during these trying times. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g5W5vSQIyH\">pic.twitter.com\/g5W5vSQIyH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mario D\u00edaz-Balart (@MarioDB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioDB\/status\/1240409251471937537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Me siento mucho mejor. Sin embargo, es importante que todos tomemos esto en serio y que todos sigamos las instrucciones del CDC para evitar lo m\u00e1s posible esta enfermedad y su propagaci\u00f3n. Sigamos trabajando juntos para emerger m\u00e1s fuerte como naci\u00f3n de estos tiempos dif\u00edciles. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9X8AXROoGR\">pic.twitter.com\/9X8AXROoGR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mario D\u00edaz-Balart (@MarioDB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarioDB\/status\/1240416229178966017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Florida) has tested positive for the coronavirus, becoming the first member of Congress to do so. In a post on social media, he said he placed himself in self-quarantine last Friday and has been working from an apartment in Washington, D.C. His district in Florida includes Miccosukee and Seminole homelands. I&#39;m feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21,82,83],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institutions","tag-florida","tag-mario-diaz-balart","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}