MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 012
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Saturday, June 12, 2021
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DILG-10: MECQ effectiveness depends on compliance to health protocols Editorial INDOMITABLE SPIRIT
Today June 12, 2021, the nation celebrates the 123rd Anniversary of the proclamation of Philippine Independence with the theme, “Kalayaan 2021: Diwa ng Kalaayan sa Pagkakaisa at Paghilom ng Bayan.” (Spirit of Freedom in Unity and Healing of the People)
Cagayan de Oro joins the national celebration under a Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) status from June 1-15, 2021 following a recent surge in covid-19 cases affecting the city and Northern Mindanao. Never has the city faced an enemy as insidious, deadly and all-consuming as the coronavirus. Not even the Philippine Revolution, PhilippineAmerican War, World War II and the various internal conflicts which had bedeviled our nation has caused us so much grief and devastation as this fearsome killer which is invisible, yet omnipresent, and from which no haven seems secure. In his daily presser on June 5, Mayor Oscar S. Moreno stressed the See SPIRIT, page 15
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- “Kung padayon nga dili magpakabana ang tanan, dili mutabang, probability, mas mutaas pa gani hinuon ang atoang community quarantine classification.” (If people will remain oblivious [to the health protocols] and would not help [the government], there is a probability that the community quarantine classification will even go higher) Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-10 Regional Director Arnel Agabe said in their recent Regional Inter Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (RIATF-MEID)-10 meeting, they still see an increase of COVID-19 cases even with the implementation of Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) in Cagayan de Oro City. During the Normin COVID-19 Response Task Force press conference, June 11, Department of the Interior and Local “Pero ang community Government (DILG)-10 Regional Director Arnel Agabe says if people will remain oblivious to the health protocols quarantine classification and would not help the government, there is a probability that the community quarantine classification will go especially kung katong hard higher. (DILG 10)
See DEPENDS, page 15
forces 95% of Iligan medical front-liners Poverty 53K kids in NorMin to get Covid-19 vaccine shots work: DOLE By NEF LUCZON
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Around 13,300 medical front-liners and senior citizens have already been inoculated with Covid-19
vaccine since March, the City’s Health Office (CHO) said on Thursday. CHO-Emergency Operations Center Health Cluster Manager, Dr. Belinda Lim,
said the 3,300 of the 3,600 healthcare workers belonging to A1 priority group have already completed their doses. Under A2 category, she
said 9,000 senior citizens By FRANCK DICK ROSETE have received their first doses with 1,500 of them CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY completed the second doses. – The Department of Labor Lim said the targeted and Employment (DOLE) 10 (Northern Mindanao) said See GET, page 15 Thursday poverty remains to be the top reason why more than 53,000 child laborers exist in the region. This was based on the profiling conducted by DOLE-10 on child laborers in Northern Mindanao, DOLE-10 Director Albert Gutib said. He said as of May 20, DOLE-10 has already profiled 34,616 child laborers out of the total 53,739. Based on the 2011 survey on children, there are 2,097,000 child laborers in the country. See FORCE, page 11