MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 293
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Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Martin Andanar
Andanar expects PH to be ‘victorious’ vs. Covid-19 By RUTH ABBEY GITA-CARLOS
MANILA – Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Friday expressed optimism that the Philippines would become “victorious” in the fight against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). In his 122nd Independence Day message, Andanar enjoined his fellow Filipinos to value the foundations and goals set by the country’s forefathers by keeping the nation “united, secure, and prosperous.” “Ensure that their sacrifices have not been made vain,” Andanar said. “If we work together and rise as one, we will emerge victori-
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Moreno pushes CdeO metropolization again in annual report By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
ous from the threat of Covid-19, and become stronger from it, as we look toward the brighter prospects that lie ahead.” Andanar hoped that despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Filipinos would continue to observe a “solemn and meaningful” commemoration of Independence Day. He said the independence the country achieved from Spanish rule 122 years ago should be celebrated. “This moment in our history is a milestone, which helped pave the way to our independence as a nation. A nation that enjoys its sovereignty and its capacity towards self-actualization,” Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno used a virtual tool for the first time in eight Andanar said. years in conducting his annual report due to the coronavirus crisis. PHOTO BY ISASee EXPECTS, page 11
BELLE CZARINA SORIANO, CITY INFORMATION OFFICE
1 y.o. baby yield 10 new COVID cases Pa, positive of COVID-19 up in Caraga region By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
PROSPERIDAD, Agusan del Sur -- Ten new confirmed positive cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) in Caraga region Sunday carried by returning residents who availed of the government’s “Balik
Probinsya (Return to the Province)” program based on laboratory results that came out Sunday. The new Covid 19 cases bring to a total of 32 persons in the region suffering from the dreaded global pandemic diseases. A report from the De-
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partment of Health Center for Health DevelopmentCaraga said the new confirmed cases are Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs), Locally Stranded Individuals (LSI) and health workers in the region. The cases are as follows: See CASES, page 11
GINGOOG CITY, Misamis Oriental: A 30-yearold construction worker and his one-year-old baby girl was found positive of COVID-19, City Mayor Eric Cañosa announced Saturday. Cañosa said that the wife and the mother of the baby was found negative of
COVID-19 after the family underwent “swab test” on arriving in Gingoog City Friday. He said that the couple, who came from Tondo, Manila, arrived in Cagayan De Oro on board a passenger vessel Friday morning. Cañosa said that the Gingoog Inter-Agency Task Force met the couple in the See YIELD, page 11
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EVEN as he is confident that Cagayan de Oro will rise up with an indomitable spirit from the coronavirus crisis along with the rest of the country, Mayor Oscar Moreno once again is pushing for the metropolization of the city along with neighboring areas as the city is pumping up to recover from the pandemic. This was one of the gist of the Moreno’s report delivered yearly since 2013 during each Charter Day which was celebrated Monday (June 15) on its 70th anniversary of the founding of the city. “Metropolization is an idea whose time has come. Now people have realized that you cannot think parochial,” Moreno said. “You have to look beyond your boundaries as you get bigger, as you share vision with your neighbors.” The mayor identified at least 14 adjacent localities which can take part in the metropolization of Cagayan de Oro – the municipalities of Tagoloan, Villanueva, Jasaan, Balingasag, Opol, Alubijid, Laguindingan and Gitagum, and El Salvador City, in Misamis Oriental; and the municipalities of Malitbog, Manolo Fortich, Baungon, Talakag and See PUSHES, page 11