MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 094
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P15.00 3 Region 11 provinces, Davao City post zero Covid-19 case
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Typhoon Odette isolates Surigao City, Siargao Is. By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: The City of Surigao, remained isolated Sunday, four days after Severe Typhoon Odette (Code Named Rai) lashed the Northern and Eastern provinces of Mindanao on Thursday. Mag. Francisco Garello, Jr., head of the army’s Division Public Affairs Office, confirmed that Surigao City could only be reached by satellite phone Sunday and that the extent of Typhoon Odette’s damaged lives and properties remained unknown. In Cagayan de Oro City, See ISOLATES, page 11
Government troopers from the army’s 4ID in Cagayan de City distributes relief goods, conduct rescue operations in Surigao City amid the fury of Typhoon Odette, considered one of the strongest and destructive typhoons that ravage the eastern Mindanao capital city of Surigao in recent years. Contributed Photos
By CHE PALICTE
DAVAO CITY – No new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have been recorded in three provinces and one city in the Davao Region, its regional Department of Health (DOH-11) said Sunday evening. Davao City, and the provinces of Davao Oriental, Davao del Sur, and Davao de Oro were among those that logged zero Covid-19 cases in the latest case bulletin released by the DOH-11 on December 19. The DOH-11 reported that five new cases of Covid-19 were recorded, one in Davao del Norte and four in Davao Occidental, bringing the total number of active cases to 665. There were also 21 new recoveries reported -- 19 are from Davao de Oro, and two from Davao Oriental. All the new cases were reported as local transmission and no deaths were reported. The DOH-11 also reported that 62.8 percent of intensive care unit beds, 77.7 percent of isolation beds, 81.6 percent of ward beds, and 65.3 percent of mechanical ventilators are available. Just last week, the Davao City Task Force Covid-19 See POST, page 11
Another cadaver found from 11 buried by landslide By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
‘Odette’ leaves 5 dead, 53K displaced in Northern M’danao By NEF LUCZON
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council in Northern Mindanao (RDRRMC-10) said Typhoon Odette killed five people, displaced a total of 53,340 individuals, and left an estimated PHP81
million worth of damage to property in the region. In a report released Sunday evening, December 19, the total number of individuals displaced came from 15,086 families and 242 barangays, with the province of Misamis Oriental having the highest number with
33,435 individuals or 9,185 families from 27 barangays, which included this city. The RDRRMC-10 also recorded damage to houses, both partially and totally, with an estimated value of PHP1,132,000, while damage to infrastructure in San See LEAVES, page 11
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur -- Another dead body and dismembered hand part of the body were retrieved Sunday afternoon bringing so far five recovered fatalities from the landslide in the interior village of Sibagat in Agusan del Sur. The recovered cadaver was identified as Robert Cabalquinto, 6, who was among the 11 family members buried by a landslide in the village of Kioya as they were heading to an evacuation center on Thursday amid the onslaught of Typhoon Odette. Rolando Buag, head of the town’s emergency operation center, said Cabalquinto and the mutilated hand which were already decomposing were found at the top side part of the Panggabon Waterfalls prompting the local health office to order
The mother of the 11 family members buried by the landslide during the onslaught of Typhoon Odette wept in tears seeing them in body bags at the covered court of Barangay Kioya in Sibagat Agusan del Sur. Photo courtesy of S ibagat M unicipal I nformation O ffice
the immediate burying of the corpse at the cemetery. He said the body could be washed out from the rampaging floodwater of an overflowing creek coming from the landslide site about 150 meters from the waterfalls where the victims were hit by a fallen Balite tree and buried by the onrush of loosened soil. Among those buried was
a 6-month-old infant. Search and retrieval operation involving the Sibagat Search and Rescue, Bureau of Fire Protection firemen, the local police, soldiers from the 65th Infantry Battalion, the Searchand Rescue Agusan del Sur were widened to ensure that all of the victims’ bodies will be found. See LANDSLIDE, page 11