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NegOr to get more


Negros Oriental expects to receive additional coronavirus disease 2019 vaccines once the national government delivers a fresh supply to the region. Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, chief pathologist of the Department of Health in Region 7, made this announcement last Tuesday. The assurance came as the


province’s inoculation program slowed down due to the low supply of vaccines.


Loreche, who is also the DOH- 7 spokesperson on Covid-19, told the Philippine News Agency in a phone interview that it has been almost two weeks since the region last received Covid-19 vaccines. “We really are reliant upon the national government to give us our share of the vaccines but definitely these will be properly allocated to the Central Visayas provinces,” she said in a mix of English and Cebuano dialect. DOH-7 received the last batch of vaccines on April 14.


“The National Vaccination Operations Center are the ones to compute that and cascade it to the regional and that’s the time that the region will send the allocations to the provinces,” Loreche said.


focus of the national government is the National Capital Region or NCR Plus Bubble that includes neighboring provinces with a high number of Covid-19 cases. Meanwhile, Negros Oriental


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Assistant Provincial Health Officer Dr. Liland Estacion called on health workers to be vaccinated immediately, otherwise, the vaccines that were previously set aside for them will have to


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Daily COVID tally hits record high


The daily number of new COVID cases in Negros Oriental hit a record high of 53 cases last Wednesday, April 28, since the pandemic began last year.


Officer Dr. Liland Estacion, Covid-19 incident commander of the Province’s Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, said in a virtual presser the rise in cases in some municipalities is mostly due to local or community transmission.


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towns of Siaton with 40 cases, Dauin with 36 and Guihulngan City with 34.


About 533 Dumaguete residents, this time from barangay Calindagan, receive their wages from Cong. Chiquiting Sagarbarria for work rendered under the Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa ating Disadvantaged/Displaced (TuPaD) workers, a program under the Department of Labor & Employment that provides emergency employment for underemployed and seasonal workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic. (Photo by Anicee de la Rama)


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She said Wednesday’s announcement of 93 new cases was actually a combination of Tuesday’s 40 cases and Wednesday’s 53 cases. Thursday’s new cases tally went down to 26. But Estacion said the reopening of some areas in the province to domestic tourists is not the reason for the spike in local coronavirus disease 2019 cases. A


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“In the case of Dauin, it started with a church choir member, whose family members were also infected, as well as other contacts,” she said in a mix of English and Cebuano dialect. The sudden rise in COVID-


19 cases in Dauin has prompted town officials to institute localized lockdowns and issue a statement early this week to allay public fear and prevent false information circulating on social media platforms.


Dauin Mayor Galicano Truita said only households within 50 meters from a household with a COVID-positive individual will be placed on lockdown.


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ACE Doctors Hospital President Dr. Jonathan Amante, 2nd District Cong. Manuel Sagarbarria, and Bayawan City Mayor Pryde Henry Teves get ready for Wednesday’s inauguration of the ACE Medical Center Bayawan Inc., a level II hospital located at the Bayawan Integrated Business Center that was transformed into the medical facility through a Memorandum of Agreement between both institutions in 2016. (Photo by Bayawan LGU)


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