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Volume IX, No. 298
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Exec assures public Misor can handle influx of Covid-19 cases COVID positives in Caraga up to 116 with 29 new cases
By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - A senior official from the province of Misamis Oriental has confirmed that the province has now six sonfirmed cases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) but the provincial government has assured that it can manage the influx of returning residents. Atty. Jeffrey Caudor Saclot, the provincial interagency task force spokesperson, said that “if there is a surge, the province can handle it.” Saclot said all the 23 towns, including the two component cities in the province are prepared for the
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
See ASSURES, page 15
Tourism director for Northern Mindanao Elaine Marie Unchuan (left) confers with Gingoog City Mayor Erick Cañosa during a meeting at the Gingoog city hall recently in regard to what measures and protocols to implement while the government relaxes its guidelines on Covid-19.
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur -- Twenty nine more returning residents in Caraga region were tested coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) positive in the laboratory results that came out Friday (June 26) bringing to a total of 116 cases in the region. A report from Department of Health- Center for Health Development Caraga (DOH-CHD Caraga) noted that there were actually 47 confirmed cases but 18 were follow up test for reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) from the laboratory of Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City. The laboratory results also showed 160 cases were tested negative. The negative results were from the follow See POSITIVES, page 15
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Police locked down part of Agusan, city announces 28th COVID-19 case By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Just as the local health and police authorities imposed Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno leads in the groundbreaking of Pagatpat a partial lockdown of baValley Residences which will benefit 602 families who are affected with the construction of the mega flood control project in the city. CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY INFORMA- rangay Agusan, health officials announced the 28th TION OFFICE
COVID-19 positive case here Thursday. Dr. Joselito Retuya, the city’s epidemiologist also disclosed that the 28th COVID-19 positive case involved a 22-year-old patient from Bulua here.
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He said that the patient was “asymptomatic” (a person that shows no symptoms or any signs of COVID-19 infection) when he arrived in the city’s port area on a regular passenger vessel See ANNOUNCES, page 15