MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 315
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Energy leaders see power consumers in AgSur becoming ‘Peoples Oligarch’ Misor police ready to face ‘neo-normal’
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur -- Soon, a building will rise inside the compound of Agusan del Sur Electric Cooperative, Inc. (ASELCO) in Barangay San isidro here will economically empower member-consumers-owners (MCOs). Leaders of the energy industry have even envisioned that someday soon the economic gains from the edifice would turn them into “peoples oligarch.” Lawmakers in Congress from power sector partylist groups, top provincial officials and ASELCO board and top management recently graced the blessing, groundbreaking and laying of the time capsule for the construction of P3-million One Electric Cooperatives Network Foundation(OECNF) MultiPurpose Building. Invited VIPs cover the hole where the time capsule of the OECNF multi-purpose build- The OECNF building
By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
BALINGASAG, Misamis Oriental--A top-ranking police official in Misamis Oriental yesterday said that the local police is ready to meet the challenges in this time of neo-normal amid the health crisis brought about by the Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) Police Colonel Robert Roy V. Bahian, Provincial Director of Police Provincial Police Office (PPO), said the local police is just implementing the minimum health protocol based on the recommendations of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF). “We are now in neonormal meaning it is but See POLICE, page 15
ing will soon rise.
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Iligan nurse on polio vaccination contracts COVID-19 By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
ILIGAN CITY -- A nurse in Iligan City, who supervised the polio vaccination to six barangays in the city, is the latest case of COVID-19 in the city, making the total number of confirmed case to 58, including the two fatalities recorded in March. A police officer manned the street in a barangay in Bal- Iligan City Health Officer ingasag town in Misamis Oriental after the Inter-Agency Dr. Cherlina Cañaveral, said Task Force (IATF) locked down the area for 14 days due IC58, is a 61 year-old resito locl transmission of Coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19). dent of Barangay Villaverde, photo by gerry lee gorit
who was admitted on July 29 in a hospital facility due to fever and “non-productive cough”. The patient has no history of travel abroad or to any place with confirmed case of COVID-19 but she is directly exposed to a family member who is a returning locally-stranded individual (LSI). The family member tested negative in the reverse See NURSE, page 15
Operations at the Iligan City Health Office continue even after one of its nurses was infected with COVID-19 and more than 30 health workers, who have direct exposure with the patient, are swabbed for RT-PCR test and are now in home quarantine. (Divina M. Suson)