Mindanao Daily (February 3, 2022)

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MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS

Volume XI, No. 111

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

CDO’s Covid-19 isolation beds increase to over 600

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By FRANCK DICK ROSETE

Davao to unveil new tourist police office in March

HE local government here has received additional 141 isolation beds for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases from different private and public hospitals in this city.

Dr. Ted Yu Jr., medical officer of the city health office (CHO), said in an online briefer Tuesday the additional beds were from various private hospitals, including the JR Borja General Hospital, a public hospital managed by the city government. This is in response to their recent meeting to fight the increasing number of admitted positive cases in the city. Yu said this brought the total of Covid-19 beds in the city to 661 from 520 beds previously and the primary reason why the total bed utilization rate went down to 62.17 percent. City Mayor Oscar Moreno commended the huge help and effort of the different hospitals and un-

derscored the importance of the total bed utilization rate as one of the indicators to be checked by the National Inter-Agency Task (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease for the Covid-19 classification in every area in the country. “Let’s give a big round of applause to our private and public hospitals, especially the Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) for adjusting by providing additional isolation beds. We are worried if the total bed utilization rate will go to over 70 percent as this will be considered highrisk,” Moreno said. He said because our number of beds went up from 520 to 611, the perSee BEDS, page 11

By CHRISTINE CUDIS

DAVAO CITY – Even as the city continues to fight against the pandemic, the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) is keen on completing the new Tourist Police Unit (TPU) office located at the center of commerce, beside one of the popular shopping malls here along J.P. Laurel Avenue. Capt. Raymundo Bacera, RECOVERY PHASE. Eyeing the influx of tourists when restrictions are lifted, the Davao City Police Office will open a new office for its Tourist Police Unit in March this year. acting city TPU chief, told It will be the second TPU building in the city after the one built at Roxas Avenue in the Philippine News Agency front of Marco Polo Davao. (Perspective

of

TPU

building courtesy of

Generose Tecson)

See UNVEIL, page 11

‘Rido’ eyed as motive in slay of Lanao Norte HPG chief By DIVINA SUSON

ILIGAN CITY - Police investigators are looking into family feud or “rido” as a possible motive for the ambush that killed two, including the chief of the Lanao del Norte - Highway Patrol Group (HPG), and wounded another companion in Sultan Dumalondong, Lanao del Sur. A report from Lanao del Sur police stated that Major Omar Tago, the Lanao del Norte - HPG chief, was on his way to Barangay Pagalungan on Monday to attend the vigil of a family member who died four days before the incident when the suspects fired upon the vehicle of the police official. In an update Tuesday, Lt. Col. Cristio Lagyop Jr., chief of the Regional Public Information Office of the Police Regional Office in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, confirmed that four assailants on motorcycles carried out the attack.

Tago was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead while being revived. His companion, identified as Kanor Rascal, died on the spot while another companion, identified as Adam Dirindigun, was wounded and is now being treated in a hospital in Marawi City. Tago, who heads the HPG Lanao del Norte, was on his Police Major Omar Tago, chief of the Police Highway Patrol See MOTIVE, page 11

Group in Lanao del Norte. (Supplied

photo )

2 killed, 2 captured in Bukidnon clash By CRIS DIAZ, Executive Editor

IMPASUG-ONG, Bukidnon – Two rebels of the New People’s Army (NPA) were killed while two others were captured, as fresh fighting between state forces and communist rebels erupted anew in Bukidnon, the military said Tuesday. Lt. Abigail F. Lorenzo, the Civil-Military Operation Officer, 8ID, identified the casualties as Alias Draw, member of the dismantled Squad 1, Platoon Dario, Sub-Regional Committee 2, North Central Mindanao Regional Committee (NCMRC) and Alias Paet, Communication

Staff/Special Operations Group/Intel of Regional Operations Command, The captured two NPAs were Nisy Sante Alias Arnold, 72, Supply Officer, Squad 1, Regional Sentro De Gravidad (RSDG) Compaq, NCMRC; and Gelloye Lipanya Sagula Alias Janjan, 20, member, Squad 2, Team Abe of the same unit. Lorenzo said the soldiers were responding to reports of the presence of an armed group in the area when they engaged five NPA rebels in a brief fire See CLASH, page 11


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