{"id":3913,"date":"2020-03-19T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:44:34","slug":"u-s-rep-kim-in-self-quarantine-after-contact-with-positive-coronavirus-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2020\/03\/u-s-rep-kim-in-self-quarantine-after-contact-with-positive-coronavirus-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Rep. Kim in Self-Quarantine After Contact With Positive Coronavirus Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-3) announced that he will self-quarantine for two-weeks following direct contact with a member of Congress who has tested positive for COVID-19.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

“Now is the time to be safe and to take all precautions for each other,\u201d <\/span>Kim<\/span> <\/span>said in a prepared statement<\/span>. “In the past few hours, I\u2019ve received word that a member of Congress, who I was in direct contact with, tested positive for COVID-19.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Continuing, he <\/span>said:<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>The health of our community must be our top priority, so I\u2019ve decided to self-quarantine, and I want to strongly encourage anyone in a similar situation to take the same action.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“<\/span>It\u2019s important to follow the CDC guidelines, follow your doctor\u2019s advice, and take the appropriate steps to stay safe and stop the spread of this virus, as I hope others are doing who might have been exposed.<\/span>“<\/span><\/p>\n

Kim’s office said he <\/span>would <\/span>be continuing to “work full-time with my staff to help people across Burlington and Ocean counties get through this crisis and to advocate for critical supplies and testing that can help our health care professionals and first responders on the front lines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Andy Kim (D-3) announced that he will self-quarantine for two-weeks following direct contact with a member of Congress who has tested positive for COVID-19. “Now is the time to be safe and to take all precautions for each other,\u201d Kim said in a prepared statement. “In the past few hours, I\u2019ve received word that a member […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-ocean-county-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/andy_kim_congress_townhall_82.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}