MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH | JUSTICE | PROGRESS
Volume XI, No. 020
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Media exec assails LGU swab tests as anti-poor By JESSIE MONGCAL MDNN Correspondent
P 2M illegal drugs, 3 collared in police buy bust operations By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
Jaudian
DIPOLOG CITY - Dean Manny Jaudian, president of Cagayan de Oro Press Club has asked the Office of Senator Koko Pimentel and DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya “to revisit the requirements set by LGUs on requiring SWAB tests and RT PCR, because it is an anti-poor policy and a clear financial burden to the people especially those suffering the present hardships brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.” Dr. Jaudian was personally told by the Dipolog provincial LGU and Dumaguete City/Negros Oriental LGUs that each See ASSAILS, page 11
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Three alleged illegal drug traffickers were busted in a joint police operation here that yielded 300 grams of Shabu ( Methamphetamine Hydrochloride) valued at P 2 million, BGen. Rolando Anduyan, police regional director in Northern Mindanao, said Wednesday. The suspects identified as Liezel Galagar, 34, female, of Brgy. 34, Joemar Cartajena, 24, male, of Zone 11, Upper Carmen, and Antonina Padalapat, 32, female, of Ramonal Village, Nazareth, all of Cagayan de Oro City, were nabbed in Zone 11, Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City, in a joint operation led by the police Regional Special Three suspects (below photo) in a P 2M illegal drug buy bust in Upper Carmen, Cagayan de Oro City pose for mug shots at the Cagayan De Oro City police headOperation Unit. quarters here following their arrest. Above photo shows the alleged shabu seized See DRUGS, page 11
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Ruffy Magbanua
Soaring high amid this pandemic Because they change things. They push the human race forward. While some may see them as crazy ones, we see genius – Steve Jobs DESPITE the devastating effect of Covid-19 on the print media industry, Businessweek Mindanao, FULL STORY ON PAGE 4
All systems go for Bakuna by the Sea DAVAO CITY -- It’s all systems go for Bakuna by the Sea, a vaccination program for Davao City’s tourism sector workers. The vaccinations will start tomorrow, June 30 at 8 :00 a.m. with the Grand Pavilion of the Waterfront Insular Hotel serving as the venue of the vaccination site. An initial 2,000 doses of vaccines will be provided to jumpstart the vaccination of an estimated 7,000 See BAKUNA, page 11
Heated tobacco products reduce cigarette sales THE introduction of heated tobacco products (HTPs), considered a harm reduction approach, has reduced cigarette sales in Japan by 30 percent in a span of three to four years. “Since 2014, three heated tobacco products have been launched officially nationwide in Japan and these have been penetrating 25 percent [of total smoking population], and this
product has been successful to reduce cigarette smoking in Japan so far by 30 percent in three to four years,” Dr. Kumamaru Hiroya, a preventive physician specializing in smoking cessation, said. Dr. Hiroya, the Vice Director of the AOI Universal Hospital in Kawasaki, said this decline in consumption was not observed after years of trying
nicotine replacement therapy (NTP). He said in contrast with NTPs such as nicotine patches which proved ineffective in reducing the smoking rate in Japan, the commercialization of HTPs like IQOS from Philip Morris International (PMI) in 2014 led to a significant decrease See REDUCE, page 11
A sample of a heated tobacco product.