MINDANAO DAILY TRUTH. JUSTICE. PROGRESS.
Volume IX, No. 249
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
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NBI-10, govt agencies seizes Thermal scanners worth P1.9m By GERRY LEE GORIT Correspondent
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation, Region 10 (NBI-10) led other government agencies in confiscating some 203 pieces of Thermal scanners at a house in Barangay Gusa this city on March 24. Authorities said the fever detectors against virus worth P1.9 million were confiscated during an entrapment operation
conducted by the NBI, Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Regulatory and Compliance Board (RCB), and local officials of Barangay Gusa. NBI-10 Regional Director Patricio Bernales Jr. said the confiscated items were found stored in a residence allegedly owned by a person identified only by officials as a certain Mr. Chong in Barangay Gusa. See SEIZES, page 11
RITM confirmed 1st CDO Covid-19 positive patient By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: The Research Institute of Tropical Medicine (RITM) has confirmed the first COVID-19 positive patient at the government-owned Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) here. Dr. Jose Chan, NMMC Medical Director, said during a press briefing Wednesday that the patient is a 71-year-old male
who resides in one of the city’s urban villages (barangays) here. Chan said that the patient came from Green Hills in San Juan, Metro Manila, who arrived in Cagayan De Oro City on March 7, 2020. He said that the patient had a medical checkup after noticing a mild fever, but was later released after getting a specimen which Officials present to reporters the 203 thermal scanners worth P1.9 million confiscated in Barangay Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City on March 24). From left:, National Bureau of Investigation, Region 10 (NBI-10) agent was sent to RITM for analyses. Veron Pontillas, city official Antonio Resma Jr. of the Regulatory and Compliance Board (RCB), and NBI-10 See CONFIRMED, page 11
Regional Director Patricio Bernales Jr.
photo by gerry lee gorit
Oro dad says contact tracing automatically done to confirmed patients CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- “To the extent nga na’y confirmed nga taga Cagayan de Oro nga namatay, automatic na na ang contact tracing even if wala pa’y results,” Mayor Oscar Moreno said in a press conference, March 25, here. Noting one confirmed patient who was tested To provide daily updates and increase awareness on coronavirus disease (COVID)-19, positive with coronavirus the City Government of Cagayan de Oro conducts a press conference at Cagayan de disease (COVID)-19 in the Oro City Hall. (CDO COVID 19 Response)
city, Moreno said the local government is doing measures in fighting the disease through taking responsibility in tracing contacts, which is primarily done by the Department of Health (DOH). “We can go further kahit PUI [person under investigation] lang basta nasa NMMC [Northern Mindanao Medical Center]
(even if he or she is only named PUI as long as the patient is in NMMC) and the condition is not good, mag-contact tracing na (we will conduct contact tracing already),” Moreno said. For their part in the City Health Office (CHO), Dr. Lorraine Nery said they regularly check the persons under monitoring (PUMs) See SAYS, page 11