DAVAO CITY – Food pack distribution, bringing home of stranded residents, and aggressive testing and contact tracing were some of the proactive measures instituted by Davao Oriental amid the continuing fight against Covid-19. In his virtual State of the Province Address (SOPA) on Wednesday, Governor Nelson Dayanghirang said that following the onset of the outbreak last year and along with quarantine protocols, they implemented border controls and activated “Oplan Sundo” to rescue stranded residents, consisting mostly of students and residents who lost their jobs. “We also aided locally stranded residents, mostly Returning Overseas Filipinos, thru the Hatid Tulong Program and
BAGUIO CITY – The Police Regional Office Cordillera (PROCor) said two of the five suspects killed in an encounter in the early morning of June 30 who were wearing police uniforms are not members of the Philippine National Police (PNP). Capt. Marnie Abellanida, PROCor information officer, on Thursday said verification from the PNP national headquarters shows that the identification (ID) card recovered from one of the suspects with the name Police Chief Master Sgt. Marvin A. Aquino has been listed in the roster to have died in 1996. He said the other suspect from whom another PNP ID with the
BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental’s provincial government is going digital for the effective and efficient delivery of health and emergency services to Negrenses. To kick-start the 2021 National Disaster Resilience Month, Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson led on Thursday the unveiling of the Digitizing Health and Emergency Management initiative, which integrates three services in a platform that can be accessed by officials and constituents in all the 31 local government units (LGUs) of the province. “Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) changed the world and we are called to change accordingly; to act and adapt according to the necessity of the situation. We
DAGUPAN CITY – The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)-Pangasinan has started its Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Step 2 mobile registration for public school teachers and administrative personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) here. The 39 public schools of the city, including some private school teachers and personnel, were clustered into five for the three-day registration schedule from June 30 to July 2. This first cluster is composed of the Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS), Lucao Elementary School, Juan P. Guadiz Elementary School, Malued Elementary School, West Central Elementary School 1, and West Central Elementary School 2. In an interview
DAVAO CITY – The city government expanded its coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) inoculation drive to the A4 (essential front-liners) priority group this week, with 2,790 eligible individuals having received their first dose on Wednesday. In a statement on Thursday, the city government said this group includes private sector employees required to physically report to work, government personnel, workers in the informal sector, the self-employed who work outside of their homes, and private household workers. “They are being inoculated alongside healthcare workers, senior citizens, and persons with comorbidities,” it said. Also on Wednesday, the Department of Tourism-11 (Davao Region) supported the
CEBU CITY – This city is striving to administer a daily average of 2,500 doses of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines to reach 70-percent population protection by December, the city health officer said on Thursday. Dr. Jeffrey Ibones, head of the Cebu City Health Office, said the city could administer as much as 500 doses of vaccines in one site alone, as more people are now eager to be master-listed for immunization. “We are praying for a fair allocation of vaccines for Cebu City. We have one million population. Our target is to vaccinate 700,000 of the residents, then we
