MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 265
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Friday, April 17, 2020
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Gov. Zubiri to answer DILG show cause order C
By CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor
AGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Provincial Governor Jose Ma. Zubiri, of Bukidnon, on Thursday denied that he has violated the guidelines set by the national Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) on the implementation of the enhance community quarantine (ECQ).
rules that ensure the safety and well-being of the people of Bukidnon. Interior Secretary Eduardo Ano, said that the local executives have violated the guideline on mass gathering, social distancing and prohibiting of the operation of industries vital to the food security of the country.
Ano said that the local executives would face administrative and criminal charges if found violating the quarantine directives of the IATF for the management of emerging infectious diseases. Zubiri received the DILG show cause order on Wednesday.
Zubiri was one of the two Philippine provincial governor's who was ordered by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to "show cause" on why he could not be held administratively for alleged violation of the ECQ guidelines issued by the national government. Zubiri denied that he has violated any of the provisions of the national ECQ guidelines issued by the national government, but Bukidnon provincial Gov. Jose Ma. Zubiri denies that he violates the guidelines of the national enhance community is willing to face the consequence for implemenleting quarantine. photo by cris diaz
South Cotabato’s first COVID-19 patient recovers KORONADAL CITY – South Cotabato province’s first confirmed case of the 2019 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has tested negative for the virus and is now considered to have recovered. T’boli Mayor Dibu Tuan said the 52-year-old male patient (PH 2173) from his town has turned out free of the virus based on the result of his repeat swab test released by the Southern Philippines Medical Center laboratory in Davao City. He said the test result was confirmed on Wednesday night by the Department of Health (DOH)-Region 12. “No words can describe the happiness I felt upon hearing that news,” the mayor said in a Facebook post. In its Covid-19 situation report as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, DOH-12 said PH
2173, who has history of travel to Metro Manila, was among the seven Covid-19 patients in the Soccsksargen region who already recovered from the disease. “(The patient) is in stable condition and with one negative result for repeat Covid-19 test,” it said. The patient was confirmed positive of Covid-19 last April 1, two weeks after arriving in the province from Metro Manila. Case records released by the South Cotabato Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) showed that the patient, who resided in Tondo, Manila for 21 years, traveled home through a passenger vessel last March 13 and arrived in Cagayan de Oro City two days later. He then took a passenger bus to See RECOVERS, page 7
Agusan del Sur Gov. Santiago Cane Jr. and Trento Mayor William Calvez talked to 41 persons under monitoring who are mostly college students of Davao City and Tagum City before they were allowed to go home to their respective communities. Contributed photo by Allen Jose Lumanta, municipal information officer of Trento.
41 PUM graduates in Agusan Sur went home By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN
TRENTO, Agusan del Sur-- Some 41 persons under monitoring (PUMs) who went on a 14-day quarantine at the Municipal Isolation Facility here at the Trento National High School covered court went home yesterday to their respective towns of this
province after they were issued with medical clearance by government physicians. The Provincial Corona Virus Disease-2019 (Covid-19) Task Force distributed the medical clearance to what they call “graduates” of the Covid-19 who are mostly students from Davao
City and Tagum City who decided to go home on March 31 but was halted at the border between this province and Davao de Oro and declared them as PUMs since they came from the areas where there were already positive cases of the pandemic dreaded disease. Another batch of 139 See GRADUATES, page 7
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