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Read more about the article Barangay chairs ask CDO mayor to declare ECQ
A City Health Office worker conducts sanitation in one of the offices of Cagayan de Oro City Hall Saturday (March 4). This is part of the city’s measures to address the threat of COVID-19. About 50 teams are dispatched by Mayor Oscar Moreno to conduct the sanitation in public markets, bus stations, seaport, airport, schools, and churches in the city. (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Barangay chairs ask CDO mayor to declare ECQ

Despite the national government’s move to ease the strict quarantine measures in some parts of the country, especially in Mindanao, some barangay chairpersons here have called on the local government to place the entire city under an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) as a response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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Read more about the article Karapatan slams SolGen for opposing release of elderly, sick political prisoners
Political prisoners detained in Compostela Valley Provincial Rehabilitation Center start their week-long hunger strike on Saturday, December 3 to demand the release of 400 political prisoners in the country. (Contributed photo)

Karapatan slams SolGen for opposing release of elderly, sick political prisoners

Karapatan criticized Solicitor General (OSG) Jose Calida for opposing the petition filed by 22 elderly and sick political prisoners at the Supreme Court as a form of “double standard of justice” that endangers lives of prisoners amid the coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.

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Read more about the article Bukidnon put under general community quarantine
A police personnel checks the temperature of passengers going to Bukidnon at the quarantine area in Barangay Alae as the provincial government has put the entire province under community quarantine starting Tuesday (March 17). (Jigger J. Jerusalem/davaotoday.com)

Bukidnon put under general community quarantine

After more than a week of putting Bukidnon under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), Gov. Jose Maria Zubiri Jr. reverted the province’s status to general community quarantine (GCQ) effective Monday (April 27).

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Read more about the article Sara eyes 3 private hospitals to receive COVID-19 patients
`The Davao City Government on Thursday, March 12, 2020, announces that Mayor Sara Duterte is presently under monitored self-quarantine in her house as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Davao City Information Office)

Sara eyes 3 private hospitals to receive COVID-19 patients

The Davao City government eyes three private hospitals as reserved facilities in case there is a spike in the number of patients positive of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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