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Briefly Fallen frontliner BUTUAN City — The flag at the Capitol of the Province of Dinagat Islands (PDI) is flown in half-mast to honor the front-liners who died due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) starting Monday (March 30). Gov. Arlene “Kaka” Bag-ao said the gesture aims to show the province's solidarity with health workers and front-liners who continue to fight and risk their lives to ensure the health and safety of Filipinos. “The half-mast of the flag is in solidarity with our frontliners who passed away due to Covid-19 while in the line of duty,” said Bag-ao, who issued the directive on Friday (March 27).
Davao tightens grip DAVAO City – Mayor Sara Z. Duterte has assured Dabawenyos that banks, groceries, money remittance centers will not close should the city be placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to contain the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19). In an interview over a radio program on Monday, Duterte urged residents to remain calm because essential services will continue to operate just as it does under the current community quarantine level. She said the public will be given advance notice should ECQ be implemented if residents fail to comply with the current quarantine restrictions.
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o v i d - 1 9 pandemic could be under control by the end of the month, but uncertainty remains as to whether there w i l l be a not her coronavirus outbreak next spring, China’s leading respiratory disease expert said.
“Wit h ever y countr y t a k i n g a g g re s s i ve a nd ef fect ive measures, I believe the pandemic can be brought under control. My estimate is around late April,” Zhong Nanshan, who heads a Chinese team of top experts that advises the government on managing the PANDEMIC/PAGE 9
Nurses from the CDO Polymedic Plaza hold up PPE gowns donated by STEAG through Ms Irene Floro and face shileds from the UCCP Cagayan de Oro Church. photo supplied
THE two government hospitals in the forefront of the battle against the COVID-19 coronavir us have been getting the bulk of assistance from the private sector, especially on critically needed medical supplies and personal protection equipment (PPEs) for their front liners. The Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) as the only COVID-19 referral hospital in Northern
Mindanao (Region X) has been getting a steady stream of assistance from the private sector. On April 3, the Cagayan de Oro Filipino-Chinese Community delivered 250 sets of PPEs manufactured in South Korea worth P450, 000 to NMMC as the second batch of its P1-M assistance earlier committed to the hospital. Last March 23, the same group turned over the first
Private sector assists other hospital front liners
truckload of locally purchased supplies to NMMC worth P 3 6 5 , 0 0 0 i nclu d i ng 6 0 cartons rubbing alcohol and sanitizing gel, two units knapsack sprayer, 12 pails disinfectant solution (chlorine), safety goggles, rubber boots, protective raincoats with pants, face shields, and 50 cartons disposable water tissues/ paper towels. Meantime, the J.R.Borja FULL STORY/PAGE 10
UCCP Cagayan de Oro Church workers & volunteers makign PPEs for front liners at the Licoan church compound
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