Two political figures here have asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order against the policy on the protective barrier on motorcycles.
With the surge of new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the region, the Department of Health (DOH-XI) announced that the present critical care utilization rate is still manageable.
Since the implementation of the community quarantine from March 15 to August 3, or 141 days, the Davao City Police have apprehended 4,644 persons for violating quarantine rules.
A barangay in Nabunturan, Davao de Oro province has been placed under localized Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) starting August 2 after a suspected case of local transmission of COVID-19 was confirmed.
The Department of Health’s (DOH) recent report that included a “mass recovery” of 38,075 persons from coronavirus (Covdi-19) raised questions on the basis of this data.
The City Government of Davao is set to lift the food and medicine (FM) pass and curfew hours for Davao City starting Monday, August 3, as part of easing things for residence under the general modified community quarantine (MGCQ).
Local health officials said there have been no applications to their call for health workers for Covid-19 response, as they raise concern on the exhaustion of its personnel.
The Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) has asked the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on COVID-19 to reconsider and suspend its policy requiring barriers for motorcycle back riders.
Health officials in this region did not rule out that Davao region may hit 1,000 cases of coronavirus (Covid-19) infections by the end of July with the rise of cases reported day by day.
The Civil Aviation Authority has issued an advisory last July 16 requiring persons flying in to Davao to present their RT-PCR test results that they are coronavirus (Covid-19) free and safe to travel.
