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Lsde December 5, 2020 Leyte-Samar DAILYPOSITIVE EXPRESS l FAIR l FREE VOL. XXXI I NO. 100 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 05, 2020 P15.00 IN TACLOBAN Sec. Tugade issued an order to hasten the project DZR’s new passenger terminal to finish by early 2022 ROEL T. AMAZONA/ JOEY A. GABIETA TACLOBAN CITY- The construction of the passenger terminal building of the Daniel Z. Romualdez (DZR) Airport is expected to be completed soon than originally planned. This after Transporta- Leyte, where the airport is tions Sec. Arthur Tugade located, but to the rest of directed the contractor Eastern Visayas. MAC Builders to hasten The construction of the its construction ahead of facility started last Tuesday its target completion of (Dec.1) with a funding cost 540 days or more than a of P699.16 million and with year. a revised work schedule, Tugade, who visit- it is expected to be opera- ed the DZR Airport last tional by second quarter of November 28, asked the 2022. contractor to instead fin- Tacloban City Mayor Al- ish the construction of the fred Romualdez expressed passenger terminal build- his elation on the directive ing to just 270 days or of Sec. Tugade to hasten the around nine months. construction of the passen- It was learned that ger terminal building as this MAC Builders agreed to could accommodate more FAST TRACK CONSTRUCTION. No less than Transportations Sec.Arthur Tugade has directed for the this request of Tugade passengers. who said that the project According to the city hastening on the construction of the passenger terminal building at the Daniel Z. Romualdez (DZR) Air- is a ‘prime importance’ mayor, the improvement of port. With the directive, the project is expected to be completed earlier and will be operational on the second not only to the people of see DZR’s /page 3 ... quarter of 2022. (RYE AYON) With declining number of COVID-19 cases Oldest in the region to acquire the infection Mayor Romualdez says Tacloban 101-man from Samar gets COVID-19 virus COVID-19 now under control TACLOBAN CITY- A The San Jorge RHU has TACLOBAN CITY- as the COVID-19 101-year old man from been close for disinfection Mayor Alfred Romual- cases of Tacloban San Jorge town in Samar as some of its personnel dez of this city said its appear to be de- province was among the were infected of the virus. coronavirus disease clining saying its new patients from Eastern It was learned that the (COVID-19) cases now daily cases report Visayas due to coronavirus 101-year old man swab under control. now average less disease (COVID-19). samples were among the Romualdez said that than 10 cases. The centenarian pa- 63 samples submitted by he made this assessment “We see that tient, the oldest COVID-19 the RHU to the regional the numbers patient in the region, was office of the Department are going down said to get the infection of Health (DOH) last Sun- based on the re- from her granddaughter day. port of our con- who worked as a nurse, Of these samples, 10 tact tracers. We said a personnel of the turned to be positive with now average town’s rural health unit the result released Tuesday between one to (RHU) who requested not (Dec.1) by the DOH. four cases. That’s to be named. Aside from the 101- a very good sign “He is now at the Gan- year old man, six other dara District Hospital and members of his family considering that Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez claims that the we are a highly urbanized he appears to be asymp- were also tested positive of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the city is now under tomatic,” he said. COVID-19. city with a dense popula- control with its cases seeing a decline. He, however, asks The Gandara District At present, San tion,” the city mayor said. the people to continue to observe all the health protocols. Last August 29, Taclo- Photo shows the city mayor speaking during the opening Hospital is located at the Jorge has 71 confirmed ban posted its highest ever of the Christmas village at the City Hall grounds. nearby town of Gandara, COVID-19 cases of which also in Samar. see Mayor /page 2 ... (TACLOBAN CITY INFORMATION OFFICE) see 101 man /page 8 ... 2 Leyte Samar Daily Express NEWS Saturday, December 05, 2020 NMP courses pass Villar receives donation from Marina accreditation TACLOBAN CITY – mence from the grant of Chinese youth organization The National Maritime its provisional authority to Polytechnic’s (NMP) appli- conduct the said training on Senator Cynthia A. nated laboratory freezer, cation for accreditation of July 1, 2019. Villar has received from a biological refrigerator, au- its two Standards of Train- Maglunsod said that Chinese youth organiza- toclave sterilizer and pass- ing, Certification, andalongside with the approval tion donations for her relief box and ventilator to Las Watch keeping (STCW) of the said courses, Marina efforts during the Covid-19 Piñas General Hospital for seafarers courses have also accredited the NMP’s pandemic. and Satellite Trauma Cen- been approved by the Mar- instructors, assessors and The donations by Phil- ter (LPGH & STC) to fur- itime Industry Authority supervisors who will be ippine Fujian General ther boosts its capabilities (Marina). handling the above-men- Youth Association, Inc., dealing with the current This was disclosed by tioned courses. headed by its President health crisis. NMP Executive Director He added that during the James Go, consisted of al- The hospital has III Joel Maglunsod who 3-year period, announced most 4,000 bowls of instant opened its COVID-19 said that the reaccredited and unannounced visits will noodles testing facility. courses were Advanced be made by Marina STCW Villar would in turn Three buildings that Fire Fighting (AFF) and Office or its duly authorized distribute the donations the family built were also Refresher Course on Ad- representatives to ascertain to local government units donated by the Villar fam- vanced Fire Fighting NMP’s compliance with its (LGUs), frontliners and the ily for the hospital exten- (RAFF). rules and regulations. people in the communi- sion facilities, temporary Maglunsod reported Moreover, the records of ties in support of the gov- housing for healthcare that in the official letter implementation of correc- ernment’s fight against the workers and/or quaran- issued by Marina dated tive actions for audit results novel coronavirus. tine facility. October 30, 2020, which both internal and external, The senator, who has The said buildings are he received on November records of review and val- been leading the efforts of the Las Piñas Drug Abuse 5, the STCW courses were idation of the courses in- the Villar SIPAG to help Treatment and Rehabilita- granted full course approv- cluding the assessment and alleviate the suffering of tion Center, Vice Mayors’ al valid for three years ef- statistical record of trainees those affected by the pan- League of the Philippines fective upon payment of enrolled/certificated must demic, thanked the group its capabilities and respon- hospital equipment, porta- (VMLP) and the Pro- course approval fees. be made available during for their support. siveness to the ongoing ble handwashing stations, vincial Board Members’ He clarified, howev- the conduct of monitoring, Villar and her family health crisis. PPEs, face masks and field League (PBML) buildings er, that the 3-year validity Maglunsod said. have been helping the na- Aside from food supply, shields. – all located in Barangay period of RAFF will com- (RESTITUTO A. CAYUBIT) tional government enhance they have been donating Just recently, they do- Ilaya, Las Pinas City. (PR) NGCP donates over P 37 million to provinces hit priority areas once the Mayor ... vaccine becomes avail- by Super Typhoon Rolly and Typhoon Ulysses ...from Page 1 able. Based on the report of Following the pas- daily COVID-19 cases the regional office of the sage of destructive triple with 100. Department of Health typhoons, including the But despite of the im- (DOH) last Tuesday world’s strongest typhoon proving condition of Taclo- (Dec.1), out of the 47 for 2020, Typhoon Rol- ban in terms of the num- new cases of the region, ly (international name ber of persons getting the seven were from Taclo- Goni), National Grid Cor- COVID-19 infection, May- ban City. poration of the Philippines or Romualdez said that this For the entire month, (NGCP) commenced re- should not give the people Tacloban has posted 135 lief and restoration efforts to be complacent. cases, which was com- to hard-hit provinces in He reminded the city paratively lower com- Luzon. pared to the month of Over P37 million residents to always ob- October which was 158 worth of grocery packs serve and practice the cases. and t-shirts are being dis- mandatory health proto- tributed to provinces hard cols like wearing of face In total, Tacloban, the hit by super Typhoon Rol- mask and face shield and regional and commercial ly in the Southern Tagalog social distancing. capital of Eastern Visayas, and Bicol Regions, and to “We (have to) keep posted 1,066 COVID-19 flooded areas in the Cagay- reminding our people to cases of which 16 of them an Region and National vital power transmission tions permit, to expedite charge of operating, main- (observe) social distanc- have died. Capital Region in the after- services, we wanted to do restoration works. taining, and developing the ing; wear face masks until At present, the city more and extend relief to NGCP was able to re- country’s power grid, led by math of Typhoon Ulysses. the vaccine become avail- has 43 active cases.
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