PIA Davao Region

DAVAO CITY, Oct. 27 (PIA)- The Provincial Government of Davao Oriental has adopted the National Inter Agency Task Force-mandated Alert Level System in dealing with COVID-19 cases in its jurisdiction.   The Alert Level System is the new community quarantine classification aimed at managing the virus thru certain system indicators, triggers and thresholds as determined by the IATF.   Under the Alert Level System, there will be five levels which would determine the appropriate response protocols.   Alert Level 1 - refers to areas wherein case transmission is low and decreasing, total bed utilization rate, and intensive care unit utilization rate is low. Alert Level 2 - refers to areas wherein case transmission is low and decreasing, healthcare utilization is low, or case counts are low but increasing, or case counts are low and decreasing but total bed utilization rate and intensive care unit utilization rate is increasing. Alert Level 3 - refers to areas wherein case counts...

  DAVAO CITY, October 25 (PIA) - Following the the issuance of EO 59 or the modified liquor ban and lifting of curfew within Davao City, the Department of Health XI still reminded Dabawenyos to strictly follow the minimum public health standards (MPHS) especially with the upcoming Christmas season. “The Davao City LGU may have based the EO on their local data which is a negative COVID19 growth rate and hospital bed capacity which is no longer under critical level.  Kelangan pa rin nating i-strengthen ang MPHS and further increase vaccination ,” said Dr. Raquel Montejo of the Department of Health Davao Region in a virtual presser earlier today. The EO 59 cites the ban in selling liquor from 1AM to 8AM every day. No person or entity shall sell liquor or any alcoholic beverages within this time period. The serving of liquor for consumption in bars, restaurants, sari-sari stores, palengke videoke, and other business establishments as well as drinking liquor in all public places in...

DAVAO CITY, Oct. 1 (PIA) – The Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office of the local government of Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur has kept up with its food assistance for the COVID-19 patients, using available resources.   Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the LGU of Sta. Cruz has never stopped providing food packs and preparing meals for COVID-19 patients admitted at the municipal isolation facility, including those in quarantine at the barangay isolation units and in their homes.   MSWDO chief Adelaida Badilla said the food meals also include frontliners from the Municipal Health Office during vaccination rollouts and from the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management office during disasters.     The LGU has already projected funding allocation for the food assistance not only in response to COVID-19 pandemic, but also in preparation for disasters, until end of this year, Badilla bared during one of the episodes of PIA Davao del Sur/Davao Occidenta...

DAVAO CITY, June 23 (PIA) – The Department of Health XI clarified in a letter sent to the Davao Oriental Provincial Government that reported variants specifically from the confirmed cases from the said province are not identified as variant of concerns. This came after a news item  released by the Mati City Information Office citing that variants taken from the confirmed cases from Davao Oriental are B.1, B.1.78 and A.4. “The reported variants are not identified as variant of concerns because current data are insufficient to determine whether the variant will require more appropriate and specific health action,” DOH XI regional director Annabelle P. Yumang wrote in the letter. The Davao Oriental Provincial Task Force COVID19 also issued a press release saying that there is no Brazilian variant detected in the province contrary to the news item released recently Provincial Task Force-COVID19 Action Officer Dr. Reden Bersaldo said that “although there were variants which have...

DAVAO CITY, June 22 (PIA) – The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) – Mindanao along with six other partner sites in Mindanao are set to start the SARS-CoV-2 sequencing project this week in collaboration with the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) and the University of Glasgow. PGC-Mindanao center director Dr. Lyre Anni Murao, guesting in One Davao Virtual Presser, announced that the first batch of sequencing will run for about a week after getting needed samples from the different regions in Mindanao. “So far, three laboratories have already submitted samples and we are looking forward to receive other samples from other laboratories,” Dr. Murao said. The PGC Mindanao is one of the seven sites tapped to participate in the genome sequencing. “The importance on having this sequencing is for us here in Mindanao to identify the different variants that will give us an idea on what kind of virus do we have right now.” When asked if the possible presence of new variants is the cause ...

Regional Border Control point at Pasian, Monkayo in Davao de Oro. DAVAO DE ORO, June 22 (PIA) - Since the start of the implementation of the uniform guidelines on the regional border control, authorities in Davao de Oro has barred the entry of 190 persons at the checkpoint in Barangay Pasian, Monkayo from June 8 to 21, 2021.  Police Captain Marion Sibayan, 3rd platoon leader of the 1st DDO Provincial Mobile Force Company, revealed that the reason for the denial is mostly due to lack of RT-PCR test results.  “Aside from RT-PCR, ang uban kay non-essential ang lakaw; ug ang uban wala makapakita og documents, proof, or justification nga essential ilang lakaw,” PCpt. Sibayan said. (Aside from RT-PCR, the other (reason) is that their travel is considered non-essential; while other persons did not have documents, proof, or justification that their travel is essential.)  The uniform guidelines on the regional border control is in accordance with Joint Regional Inter-Ag...

    DAVAO CITY- The president of the Davao Tourism Association, Renato "Gatchi" Gatchalian said that it is the new role of the business owners to inform and educate their workers on the benefits of COVID-19 vaccines. “It is now our role as businessmen to let them (employees) understand na because of the situation they have to cooperate, they just have to resurrender themselves to this weapon, kasi hindi natin alam etong gyera na hindi natin nakikita ang kalaban, kelangan natin ng weapon at ang bakuna ay isang sandata . (we do not know this war, which we do not see the enemy, we need this weapon and the vaccine is the weapon). Gatchalian’s DATA along with various tourism businesses in Davao City is partnering with the City Government of Davao to vaccinate around 5,000 to 7,000 tourism workers in the city. DATA is an association of tourism and tourism-allied establishments operating in the city. Gatchalian a popular local restaurateur known for his coffee shops and themed rest...

DAVAO CITY, June 21 (PIA)- Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio revealed that the city takes its cue from the Inter-Agency Task Force on Covid-19 regarding the quarantine status to be followed beyond June 30. She clarified that the City Government follows only the advice issued by the national government when it comes to quarantine classification. Duterte-Carpio suspected that the surge is due to the presence of a more infectious variant, more people outside going to work, and non-practice of the minimum public health standard inside the dwelling places. “MPHS is not practice much on the households,” she said. Duterte-Carpio advised COVID-19 positive patients who are waiting for pick up might resort to telemedicine to talk to the doctors regarding the felt symptoms. She said the CHO is establishing this system. Duterte-Carpio said the City Government will also provide care-kits for patients who are waiting for pick up at the TTMFs like the asymptomatic and mild cases. “They will be provided...

DAVAO City June 17 (PIA) The 19th City Council might impose a fine for those defying the mandatory swab test through the Davao QR code and through the advice of the contact tracers. Councilor Mabel Sunga-Acosta, chair of the committee on peace and order and public safety of the 19th City Council clarified that there is no penalty yet for those who received an advisory through the DQR Code and from the contact tracers for mandatory swab test. She said it is just a proposal which will be a subject for a public hearing Friday with the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry Incorporated and the measure will be presented in the plenary of the City Council on Tuesday for voting by the members of the City Council. Sunga-Acosta said the measure is due for approval by the City Council due to the surge of COVID-19 cases initially in Metro Manila and with the presence of many variants have affected Visayas and Mindanao. “This is the trend when we travel, there is the tendency to pass on t...