MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 241
www.mindanaodailynews.com
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Malls closed, curfew imposed in Cag de Oro By MARK FRANCISCO Correspondent
CAGAYAN de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno on Monday (March 16) ordered the closure of all shopping malls in the city and imposed a dusk-todawn curfew beginning Tuesday, March 17 as a preemptive measure against the worldwide pandemic COVID-19. Moreno said closing shopping malls is his response to calls from netizens demanding that Cagayan de Oro would replicate the community quarantine currently being implemented elsewhere. “The goal of a community quarantine is to minimize the movement of people at a certain area. With the closure of malls, we are going to achieve that,” Moreno said, pointing out that many of the city’s 1.8 Personnel from the City Health Office leads the disinfecmillion daytime population tion and cleanup at Cagayan de Oro city hall.
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MisOr extends P 1 m aid to gov’t hospital By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
MISAMIS ORIENTAL: Provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano has ordered the release of P 1 million for the government-0wned Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) in Cagayan de Oro City. T he N M MC i s t h e only government hospital in Northern Mindanao equipped to treat patients who contract infectious diseases like the COVID-19, SARS, and MerCov. Emano said that the fund is intended for the acquisition of much needed medical equipment, medicines, and protective medical gears to be utilized by health workers assigned to treat COVID-19 patients. Aside from the financial aid, Emano also extended two coasters for the NMMC doctors and medical personnel. As part of the measures to protect the law enforcers manning the checkpoints, the province also turnover protective gears to the police regional and provincial commands. See EXTENDS, page 11
EMB clarifies no penalty charged Agusan governor wants church pastor vs LGU on garbage spill issue See CURFEW, page 11
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sued for posting fake news on COVID-19 By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN Contributing Editor
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur -- Gov. Santiago Cane Jr has called on the police in Veruela town to pursue the cybercrime case against a church pastor who posted false information in his Facebook wall about the two positive cases of
the dreaded Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID 19). The governor in an interview with MDN said the case against Gumonit should be pursued by the Veruela police since they were used as the source of malicious information even as Pastor Michael Ef Perez Gumonit, 29, single,
pastor of International One Way Outreach Foundation in the village of Binongan in Veruela town publicly apologized in his Facebook post in an eight-minute video clip. “If all that will spread fake news will be forgiven after saying sorry, this See WANTS, page 11
ILIGAN CITY -- The Environment Management Bureau of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (EMB-DENR) Region X clarified Wednesday some issues hounding the city government of Iligan in relation to the leachate spill into a popular tourist site which created several controversies See CLARIFIES, page 11