MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 270
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80% of Filipinos satisfied with gov’t response to Covid-19: poll T
HE majority of Filipinos have expressed satisfaction with the Duterte administration’s response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, according to the survey results released by global polling firm Gallup International Association.
Based on the April 6 to 8 poll, around 80 percent of Filipinos believed the government is handling the Covid-19 crisis “well”. Only 18 percent expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s Covid-19 response, while two percent were ambivalent on the matter. President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the whole island of Luzon under an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), requiring people to observe strict THE Land Transportation Office (LTO) 10 headed by regional director Nelson Manaloto donated PPEs for frontliners home quarantine and limat the Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) in Cagayan de Oro City. photo supplied
Andanar hands out relief to media workers in Normin, Caraga Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security for Region 10 (CORDS X) and Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar has extended aid to media workers in the regions of Northern Mindanao and Caraga. Personnel from the Phil-
ippine Information Agency Region 10 (PIA 10) on Wednesday facilitated the delivery of half of the intended 1,000 packs of rice to Butuan City, while the remaining 500 packs are allocated for Region 10. “At this time of health See RELIEF, page 11
iting their movement to accessing basic necessities. Duterte, however, has yet to decide on the possible total lifting, modified lifting, or another extension of the Luzon-wide ECQ, which is set to lapse on April 30. Other local chief executives in Visayas and Mindanao have also imposed an ECQ to curb the spread of Covid-19. The survey conducted by Gallup International also found that 86 percent expressed willingness to See SATISFIED, page 11
MisOr to review ECQ guidelines By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
Oro press club thanks PHINMA-COC for giving 100 food packs to members CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Cagayan de Oro Press Club, which has a membership of over 120 media practitioners, has gratefully acknowledge the support of Phinma-COC of 100 packs of foodstuffs. The donation was turned-over to the COPC office, April 13. In a statement, COPC president Dr. Manny Jaudian, said he and the rest of Board of Directors, and the whole club membership
are grateful for Phinma Education Network’s support to the media here, of which many are covering the frontlines in this war against Covid-19. The Phinma food pack contained 5 kilos of rice; 4 noodles; 2 canned sardines; and 2 beefloaf cans. “We are deeply thankful of Phinma’s humanitarian gesture. Indeed the donation was a great help to COPC’s media members who are
also doing public service to report and document the government’s strides in fighting Covid-19, even without sufficient monetary support. Some are rendering media duties as volunteer efforts to keep the public abreast of the day-to-day development of the crisis,” Jaudian said. “I consider them as frontliners and therefore, the club should find ways to sustain See THANKS, page 11
MISAMIS ORIENTAL: A need to review the guidelines of the enhance community quarantine (ECQ) by the local interagency task force (IATF) is necessary after April 30, provincial governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano said Friday. Emano said that the members of the local IATF in Misamis Oriental would convene to review the existing policies of the ECQ in order to align with President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive. In a bid to ease the effect of the COVID-19 in many areas in the counSee REVIEW, page 11
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