{"id":424,"date":"2020-03-20T00:09:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/coronavirus-hits-2-nyc-council-members-brooklyn-rep-inez-barron-bronx-rep-richie-torres\/"},"modified":"2020-03-20T00:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:09:32","slug":"coronavirus-hits-2-nyc-council-members-brooklyn-rep-inez-barron-bronx-rep-richie-torres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Hits 2 NYC Council Members Brooklyn Rep Inez Barron &#038; Bronx Rep Richie Torres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Council Members <strong>Inez Barron<\/strong> (East New York, Brooklyn) and <strong>Richie Torres<\/strong> (Bronx).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast night, I found out that I had tested positive for #COVID19. Over the weekend, I learned that a senior staff member had tested positive after experiencing symptoms for several days,\u201d Torres posted on Twitter. \u201cAll members of my staff have quarantined themselves &amp; are now closely monitoring their health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Inez Barron announced that she tested positive for Coronavirus via video on Facebook (see video below). Inez Barron;s husband, Assemblyman Charles Barron announced a few days ago that he has tested positive, and according to the Amsterdam News, he remains hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcharles.barron.1420%2Fvideos%2F10216282141112964%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Council Members Inez Barron (East New York, Brooklyn) and Richie Torres (Bronx). \u201cLast night, I found out that I had tested positive for #COVID19. Over the weekend, I learned that a senior staff member had tested positive after experiencing symptoms for several days,\u201d Torres posted on Twitter. \u201cAll members of my staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}