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URL LINK: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/amp/news/01/15/21/poor-health-standards-among-causes-of-rising-covid-19-cases-in-davao-doh&ved=2ahUKEwiQ5ovSztP7AhXW3GEKHbMbA84QFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0d0oMRXnmTgUt0uZX0jKFz

TITLE: Poor health standards among causes of rising COVID-19 cases in Davao - DOH | ABS-CBN News

AUTHORS/S: Kristine Sabillo, ABS-CBN News

DATE PUBLISHED: Jan 15 2021 05:57 PM

KEY INFO: In OCTA Group’s January 12 report, it highlighted Davao del Sur including Davao City as among “provinces of concern” due to an increase in new cases and the positivity rate or the percentage of people testing positive was above 10%.

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URL LINK: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1296962/100-percent-increase-in-covid-19-cases-in-mindanao-region-attributed-to-returnees

TITLE: 100 percent increase in COVID-19 cases in Mindanao region attributed to returnees
AUTHOR/S: Bong Sarmiento - INQUIRER.NET
DATE PUBLISHED: June 24, 2020
KEY INFO: The increase of COVID-19 cases in Mindanao was ascribed to overseas Filipino workers imperiling locals upon returning to their home regions.

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100 percent increase in COVID-19 cases in Mindanao region attributed to returnees

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KORONADAL CITY—The number of COVID-19 cases in two Mindanao regions—Soccsksargen and Caraga—doubled as more overseas Filipino workers and stranded individuals started returning to their

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URL LINK: https://minda.gov.ph/news/475-minda-sees-self-reliance-as-key-to-covid-19-recovery-in-mindanao

TITLE: MinDA sees self-reliance as key to COVID-19 recovery in Mindanao
AUTHOR/S: Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA)
DATE PUBLISHED: July 9, 2020
KEY INFO: MinDA secretary, Emmanuel F. Piñol, proposes for Local Government Units (LGUs) in Mindanao to be self-reliant rather than depend on the national government to bolster socioeconomic development that had been thwarted by the pandemic.

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MinDA sees self-reliance as key to COVID-19 recovery in Mindanao

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Mindanao's lead agency in coordinating and integrating development efforts that bring about accelerated socio-economic development of Mindanao. We shall carry out this mission through the active and extensive participation of all sectors in this development process. We are committed to upholding standards for service excellence, good governance and inclusive leadership in achieving the aspirations and vision of all Mindanawons.

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URL LINK: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-57004926

TITLE: Philippines Covid surge throws country into disarray
AUTHOR/S: BBC News
DATE PUBLISHED: May 8, 2021
KEY INFO: As COVID-19 undergoes a second surge, this puts the healthcare system into a deeper pressure.

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In the Philippines, a second surge in Covid-19 cases is putting renewed pressure on the healthcare system.

The country currently has the second highest number of cases in South East Asia behind Indonesia.

And with one of the longest and hardest lockdowns in the world, a crippling recession has forced thousands on to the streets in search of food.

Howard Johnson reports.

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In the Philippines, a second surge in Covid-19 cases is putting renewed pressure on the healthcare system. The country currently has the second highest number of cases in South East Asia behind Indonesia. And with one of the longest and hardest lockdowns in the world, a crippling recession has forced thousands on to the streets in search of food.

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URL LINK: https://youtu.be/FcGAwBNC2Ek

TITLE: SONA: Unang kaso ng COVID-19 sa Mindanao, kritikal ang lagay
AUTHOR/S: GMA News
DATE PUBLISHED: March 12, 2020
KEY INFO: First case of COVID-19 in Mindanao; A resident from Cagayan de Oro who worked in Pasig city. A pivotal moment that marked the pandemic's onset in the southern regions of the Philippines.

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SONA: Unang kaso ng COVID-19 sa Mindanao, kritikal ang lagay

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URL LINK:
https://www.rappler.com/nation/coronavirus-cases-growth-rates-cities-provinces-mindanao-january-12-2022

TITLE: Mindanao cities seeing COVID-19 cases, 2-week growth rates up
AUTHOR/S: Rappler
DATE PUBLISHED: January 13, 2022
KEY INFO: The number of COVID-19 cases in Davao City on a single day returned to three digits, according to data from the Department of Health (DOH) in Southern Mindanao.

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Cagayan de Oro registers an alarming 1,194% two-week growth rate in COVID-19 cases while neighboring Bukidnon province sees a 200% increase

BUKIDNON, Philippines - Davao City logged a single-day three-digit number of newly documented COVID-19 cases again while Cagayan de Oro was back to two-digit figures daily. This prompted the government to raise alert levels in the two cities and three other Mindanao areas due to the increasing number of infections.

Cagayan de Oro registered an alarming 1,194% two-week growth rate in COVID-19 cases while neighboring Bukidnon province saw a 200% increase.

Cagayan de Oro City and Bukidnon in Northern Mindanao, and Davao City in Southern Mindanao saw the highest number of COVID-19 cases in the country's second-largest island in the second and third quarters of 2021.

On Wednesday, January 12, acting presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles announced that the COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) decided to place 28 areas in the country, including the Mindanao cities of Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Butuan, Cotabato, and the province of Agusan del Sur, under Alert Level 3 from January 14 to January 31.

Data from the Department of Health (DOH) in Southern Mindanao showed Davao City's single-day number of COVID-19 cases back to three digits at 110 on Tuesday, January 11, from 40 on January 10. It also recorded one death on Tuesday, bringing to four COVID-19-related deaths in the city this year.

The Davao region's total active cases also reached four digits at 1,164 as of Wednesday, January 12.

In Northern Mindanao, Cagayan de Oro saw 327 active cases with 73 patients in hospitals, and 254 others in temporary treatment and monitoring facilities (TTMFs). No death has been recorded in the city despite the alarming two-week growth rate in the number of its COVID-19 cases.

Cagayan de Oro's City Health Office (CHO) said most of the newly infected traveled outside the city during the holidays. In its January 11 data alone, 77 of the infected were found to have traveled outside the city while seven attended gatherings.

The city's average daily rate attack (ADAR) was at 2.29% while its bed-utilization rate was at 14.4%. Its two-week growth rate, however, reached 1,194%, alarming local officials, and prompting Mayor Oscar Moreno to appeal to residents again to observe public health rules and avoid crowding.

In Bukidnon, another area in Northern Mindanao, provincial health officer Dr. Gary Guido Tabios said the province's two-week growth rate already reached 200% as of this posting, and he feared an uptrend.

The DOH logged 319 new cases in the Caraga region on January 11 alone with Agusan del Sur registering 25 new cases and the regional center of Butuan City seeing 17.

Cotabato City, meanwhile, logged 32 new cases on January 9 from its three on January 3. - Rappler.com
Grace Cantal-Albasin is a Mindanao-based journalist and awardee of Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship

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Cagayan de Oro registers an alarming 1,194% two-week growth rate in COVID-19 cases while neighboring Bukidnon province sees a 200% increase BUKIDNON, Philippines - Davao City logged a single-day three-digit number of newly documented COVID-19 cases again while Cagayan de Oro was back to two-digit figures daily.

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6.) International News Video Segment (Aranton)

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URL LINK: https://youtu.be/S7SoGzMQ5A4

TITLE: COVID-19 cases rising in Visayas, Mindanao | ANC
AUTHOR/S: ANC News
DATE PUBLISHED: May 27, 2021
KEY INFO: Rising COVID-19 cases in Visayas and Mindanao, and how it affects the inadequate healthcare system and the front liners (as hospitals ran out of bedrooms and sanitizing equipment).

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COVID-19 cases rising in Visayas, Mindanao | ANC

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URL LINK: https://www.rappler.com/voices/new-school/new-school-lack-healthcare-professionals-philippines/

TITLE: [New School] On the lack of healthcare professionals in the Philippines

AUTHOR/S: Charlize Jacquelinn E. Abenir
DATE PUBLISHED: April 11, 2021
KEY INFO: The lack of healthcare workers in the Philippines.

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The Philippines is known for having one of the highest passing rates for healthcare worker examinations. Last June and November 2019, for instance, 12,686 examinees passed the Nursing Licensure Examination. Despite this, almost 75% of cities and municipalities around the country have an insufficient number of healthcare workers. Licensed professionals tend to migrate for potentially higher salaries and benefits, such as those in the United States and neighboring countries.

Since the pandemic struck the Philippines, the state of the local health workforce has gotten even worse, with workers experiencing even more discrimination, mistreatment, and abuse.

The Department of Health proposed solutions to this crisis, including partnering with universities that could recommend its students to understaffed hospitals. The government even went as far as to impose a deployment ban for Filipino healthcare workers to force their participation in the local fight against COVID-19.

However, this ban led to protests. The nonprofit Filipino Nurses United, for instance, expressed in September 2020 that Filipino healthcare workers have the right to seek higher salaries and work abroad. In November 2020, President Duterte lifted the said ban yet allowed only 5,000 health workers to leave, which was not enough considering that 17,000 Filipino nurses had signed overseas contracts.

Migration is seen as a way for a tenth of the Filipino working population to sustain their families in the Philippines while advancing their professional careers. This, however, has adverse effects on the people left behind in the country, especially health workers. It has commercialized health education and stripped the country of skilled learning facilitators. The local healthcare worker-to-patient ratio can be represented as 1 nurse to 60 patients, which is insufficient, especially in rural areas, making the current health system fragile and unsustainable.

These numbers are the result of apathetic people in public office. For instance, instead of acknowledging the legitimate concerns of the health sector, the President instead says that healthcare professionals are lucky to have died serving the country.

In February 23 of this year, International Labor Affairs Bureau Director Alice Visperas suggested that the deployment ban on healthcare workers set for Britain and Germany would be lifted, but only if these workers were exchanged for vaccines. Healthcare workers were treated as mere shields in hospitals and commodities in exchange for vaccines, despite the country already loaning around P70 billion for vaccines alone.

Even the prioritization of these vaccines was unreasonable. In November 2020, Health Secretary Duque stated that healthcare workers, senior citizens, and indigent citizens would be prioritized for the vaccine. Instead, more vaccines were distributed to the armed forces in comparison.

On March 23, 2020, President Duterte signed Administrative Order No. 26, indicating that healthcare workers in private and public sectors could be granted COVID-19 hazard pay. However, this order raised several concerns. According to the Alliance of Health Workers, this hazard pay was "deceptive" due to the existing Magna Carta of Public Health Workers, which already let health workers choose between hazard pay options. It was also "divisive" because of the computation stated in the said order, which pays the employee for the number of days worked, regardless of the number of hours worked.

Lastly, the pay was unjustly distributed among public and private health facilities. According to Senator Pia Cayetano, despite the Administrative Order being implemented, more than 16,000 employees have yet to receive their hazard pay due to the lack of funds. Although the DOH had already released P842 million for 86,348 employees, it still needed an additional P108.2 million for the remaining 16,764 workers.

Despite a year in quarantine, not much has changed in the health sector. COVID-19 cases are continuously rising, reaching 109,018 active cases and a total of 702,856 cases as of March 26, 2021. This increase in patients occurs while hospitals in the National Capital Region (NCR) report that they can no longer admit new patients due to overcapacity.

Second Opinion PH, a group of medical professionals, demanded that the different types of community quarantines implemented should be transformed into a "real medical quarantine." This means that plans to help people should be enacted instead of just locking them in their homes while waiting for vaccines. A study from the University of the Philippines proved that while lockdown measures effectively minimized the spread of the virus, they are only a temporary solution.

To truly combat the virus, the Philippine government needs to listen to health professionals and scientists to establish a long-term strategy that will benefit the country, including mass testing, better contact tracing, and plans beyond the acquisition and distribution of vaccines.

Specifically, there should be an increase in budget allotment for the healthcare sector and the salary of its workers, to compensate for the risks of infection, heavy workload, and lack of resources in hospitals.

The Philippines, among Southeast Asian countries, has the lowest minimum wage for healthcare workers at approximately P22,000, and even with an increase of P6,000 to P9,000 during the first tranche, this was not enough to cover daily expenses due to the inflation rate. The salary range of local healthcare workers should at least match other Southeast Asian countries. Legislation should be mandated for an increased monthly salary of about P62,000 - what they pay entry-level nurses in Vietnam.

It has been over a year since the pandemic put a halt on our lives, yet we are stuck in the same place as the rest of the world moves on. Instead of neglecting healthcare workers, the government must realize that we are in dire need of a better healthcare system, improved resources, and more workers as this pandemic drags on. - Rappler.com

The authors are associates of the Samahan ng mga Kabataang Kumakalinga sa Kalusugan (SKKK), a student organization that aims to improve the country's healthcare system by highlighting the importance of its healthcare workers, especially in times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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[New School] On the lack of healthcare professionals in the Philippines

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8.) Public Service Message or Promotional Video (Cabagtong)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNmRkGiRwQs

TITLE: PH gov't urged to send healthcare workers to Mindanao amid rising COVID-19 cases | ANC
AUTHOR/S: ANC news
DATE PUBLISHED: June 9, 2021
KEY INFO: Amid an increase in COVID-19 cases, the PH government is requested to send medical personnel to Mindanao.

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7.) Advocacy Poster or Print Ad (Cabagtong)

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URL LINK:
https://twitter.com/RegineCabato/status/1241309954868297728

TITLE: Our frontliners need your help
AUTHOR/S: Regine Cabato
DATE PUBLISHED: March 21, 2020
KEY INFO: Due to the rise of COVID 19 instances, a citizen is seeking for assistance as there aren't any PPE or masks available.

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📢 Mindanao is vulnerable to COVID-19, especially as local authorities can't track who went to a virus-hit event in Malaysia. And yet, frontliners in Zamboanga City do not have PPEs!

This donation drive is calling for financial assistance for handmade masks and faceshields. 👇🏻

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📢 Mindanao is vulnerable to COVID-19, especially as local authorities can't track who went to a virus-hit event in Malaysia. And yet, frontliners in Zamboanga City do not have PPEs!

This donation drive is calling for financial assistance for handmade masks and faceshields. 👇🏻 https://t.co/2BYYXmT38S

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📢 Mindanao is vulnerable to COVID-19, especially as local authorities can't track who went to a virus-hit event in Malaysia. And yet, frontliners in Zamboanga City do not have PPEs!

This donation drive is calling for financial assistance for handmade masks and faceshields. 👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/2BYYXmT38S
— Regine Cabato (@RegineCabato) March 21, 2020

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📢 Mindanao is vulnerable to COVID-19, especially as local authorities can't track who went to a virus-hit event in Malaysia. And yet, frontliners in Zamboanga City do not have PPEs!

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📢 Mindanao is vulnerable to COVID-19, especially as local authorities can't track who went to a virus-hit event in Malaysia. And yet, frontliners in Zamboanga City do not have PPEs!

This donation drive is calling for financial assistance for handmade masks and faceshields. 👇🏻 https://t.co/2BYYXmT38S

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📢 Mindanao is vulnerable to COVID-19, especially as local authorities can't track who went to a virus-hit event in Malaysia. And yet, frontliners in Zamboanga City do not have PPEs!

This donation drive is calling for financial assistance for handmade masks and faceshields. 👇🏻

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14.) Non - Government Organization or Academic Institution Article (Galo)

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URL LINK:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.576371/full

TITLE: The Philippine Higher Education Sector in the Time of COVID-19
AUTHOR/S: Jeremiah Joven,Hazel T. Biana, Mark Anthony Dacela
DATE PUBLISHED: October 22, 2020
KEY INFO: This paper reports the policy responses of different Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs) to the novel coronavirus, COVD-19 pandemic. It compares these responses with those made by HEIs in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Publicly available data and news reports were used to gauge the general public’s reaction to these policies and how the Philippines’ responses fare with its Southeast Asian neighbors. The paper observes that despite the innovations made by Philippine HEIs in terms of alternative learning modes and technologies for delivering education, there are still gaps and challenges in their responses. It recommends that policy-responses and learning innovations should be grounded on a deeper understanding of distance education and should be sensitive to the call of the times.

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The Philippine Higher Education Sector in the Time of COVID-19

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This paper reports the policy-responses of different Philippine higher education institutions (HEIs) to the novel coronavirus, COVD-19 pandemic. It compares these responses with those made by HEIs in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Publicly available data and news reports were used to gauge the general public's reaction to these policies and how the Philippines' responses fare with its Southeast Asian neighbors.

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11.) Professional Video Feature (Cedeño)

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URL LINK: https://youtu.be/vmuEdJWRhPM

TITLE: One Mindanao: COVID-19 Positive sa Northern Mindanao
AUTHOR/S: GMA Regional TV
DATE PUBLISHED: March 24, 2020
KEY INFO: 3 people who are positive in COVID-19 and 2 people who died due to COVID-19 in Northern Mindanao, correlated with lack of healthcare systems.

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One Mindanao: COVID-19 Positive sa Northern Mindanao

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URL LINK: https://podcasts.apple.com/ph/podcast/life-under-covid-19-in-the-philippines-a-prof-nicole-curato/id1514290750?i=1000476728282

TITLE: Life under COVID-19 in the Philippines - A/Prof Nicole Curato
AUTHOR/S: SSEAC Stories
DATE PUBLISHED: June 4, 2022
KEY INFO: The impact of the pandemic on diasporic communities in the Philippines, community responses to the crisis, and how COVID-19 exacerbated human rights issues in a country of deep inequality. The Philippines has taken the absolute most hardline measures in terms of the spread of COVID-19. Enforcement of strict curfews and quarantine restrictions has raised concerns over police brutality during lockdowns and threatened the lives of the poor, with more than a quarter of the Philippine population living in extreme poverty. While conditions are deteriorating dramatically, they are causing some excesses.

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The Philippines has taken some of the most hardline measures in the world to contain the spread of COVID-19. Yet President Duterte's highly militarised approach to the crisis has proven controversial. The enforcement of the strict curfew and quarantine restrictions has led to some excesses, with concerns being raised over police brutality during the lockdown, whilst living conditions for the poor have worsened dramatically, as more than a quarter of the Philippines' population live in dire poverty.

Associate Professor Nicole Curato chats with Dr Natali Pearson about life in the Philippines amid one of the world's toughest coronavirus lockdowns, unpacking the Duterte government's policies, the impact of the pandemic on Filipino diasporic communities, community responses to the crisis, and how COVID-19 has exacerbated human rights issues in a vastly unequal country.

About Nicole Curato:

Nicole is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Canberra's Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance. She is the author of the book Democracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedies to Deliberative Action (2019, Oxford University Press) and Power in Deliberative Democracy: Norms, Forums, Systems (2019, Palgrave, with Marit Hammond and John Min). She is the recipient of Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Research Award (2015-2018) for her work on democratic innovations in post-disaster situations.

Prior to her appointment at the University of Canberra, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian National University (ANU). She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), University of Turku (Finland), and the University of Stuttgart (Germany). She is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Political Studies, and an Associate of the Sydney Democracy Network.

You can follow Nicole on Twitter @NicoleCurato.

View the transcript here: https://bit.ly/2ZKvT4I

Photo credit: Asian Development Bank

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The Philippines has taken some of the most hardline measures in the world to contain the spread of COVID-19. Yet President Duterte's highly militarised approach to the crisis has proven controversial. The enforcement of the strict curfew and quarantine restrictions has led to some excesses, with con...

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URL LINK: https://doh.gov.ph/press-release/Healthcare-warriors-with-a-heart’-deployed-for-COVID-19-response-in-Davao-City

TITLE: Healthcare warriors with a heart' deployed for COVID-19 response in Davao City | Deportment of Health Website
AUTHOR/S: The Department of Health
DATE PUBLISHED: December 2, 2020
KEY INFO: Valuing and saluting the bravery of all volunteers helping each other and lauding the spirit of our bayanihan exemplified by other regions in the city's fight against the covid 19 collaborating with other regions and city like these we will successfully overcome the crisis.

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After President Rodrigo Roa Duterte declared to place Davao City under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) and as the COVID-19 tally in the city reached the 9000-mark, 15 volunteer healthcare workers, referred to as "Warriors with a Heart" Batch 2 from Cagayan De Oro,were deployed to the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SMPC) last November 29, 2020 to assist in addressing the COVID-19 situation in the city. They were followed by 40 more nurses from different public hospitals in the National Capital Region (NCR) and Central Visayas (Cebu City), who arrived in Davao City the following day. To further help in the city's response, nearby regions also pledged to succor the necessary health workforce.

Thirty-five (35) of these front-liners, which include 33 nurses and 2 medical technologists from Northern Mindanao, will be staying in SMPC until December 14, 2020, to complement the needed human resource for health in the city. Meanwhile, the remaining 20 nurses from Cebu city were assigned to Temporary Treatment Monitoring Facilities and Hospitals with allocated COVID-19 dedicated beds in Davao City until December 31, 2020.

All 55 healthcare providers had arrived safely in Davao City and were welcomed by the Center for Health Development in Region XI.

DOH Secretary Francisco Duque expressed recognition to the healthcare volunteers, "To our valiant front-liners, we deeply thank you for your tireless dedication to our nation's fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and for continuously providing care to all, especially to COVID-19 patients. Your service to your countrymen will forever be appreciated."

The DOH CHD Region XI also welcomed the arrival of the additional twenty-two (22) health workers yesterday, December 1, 2020, to aid the DOH-DCHD swabbers as the local health authorities conduct a 3-day Aggressive Community Testing in identified barangays with a high risk of COVID-19 transmission. The Davao CHD targets to swab all close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the region in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the virus.

To date, there are 2,225 active cases in Davao City alone, and 530 active cases in other provinces in Region XI bringing 9,250 cases in total. Moreover, the region has confirmed 6,142 total recoveries and 353 total fatalities.

"We value the bravery of all our volunteers and we laud the spirit of Bayanihan exemplified by other regions in the city's fight against COVID-19. The support we received from other regions to help augment the COVID-19 response in Davao City is crucial in this time of crisis. It is through displays of collaboration like these that we will successfully overcome this crisis," the Health Chief remarked.

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Healthcare warriors with a heart' deployed for COVID-19 response in Davao City | Department of Health website

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After President Rodrigo Roa Duterte declared to place Davao City under General Community Quarantine (GCQ) and as the COVID-19 tally in the city reached the 9000-mark, 15 volunteer healthcare workers, referred to as "Warriors with a Heart" Batch 2 from Cagayan De Oro,were deployed to the Southern Philippines Medical Center (SMPC) last November 29, 2020 to assist in addressing the COVID-19 situation in the city.

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12.) Data Infographic or Statistics (Cedeño)

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12.) Data Infographic or Statistics (Cedeño)

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URL LINK: https://reliefweb.int/report/philippines/philippines-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-situation-report-102-23-may-2022

TITLE: Philippines Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Situation Report #102, 23 May 2022

AUTHOR/S: Relief Web
DATE PUBLISHED: June 02, 2022
KEY INFO: The statistics update of COVID-19 situation in Philippines.

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As of 22 May 2022, a total of 3,688,941 COVID-19 cases and 60,455 (1.6%) COVID-19 related deaths had been recorded since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a sudden and sharp increase in cases in late December 2021, but after peaking in early January 2022, a decreasing trend has been continuing in the number of cases reported per day (Figure 1).

There were 1,214 new cases (1.10 cases per 100,000 population) reported in week 20 (16-22 May 2022), that is 9.9% higher than the previous week (9-15 May 2022: 1,118 new cases, 1 cases per 100,000 population). For week 20, the following regions recorded the highest case counts: NCR (503 cases), Region IV-A: CALABARZON (149 cases), and Region 3: Central Luzon (132 cases).

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Philippines Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Situation Report #102, 23 May 2022 - Philippines

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As of 22 May 2022, a total of 3,688,941 COVID-19 cases and 60,455 (1.6%) COVID-19 related deaths had been recorded since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a sudden and sharp increase in cases in late December 2021, but after peaking in early January 2022, a decreasing trend has been continuing in the number of cases reported per day (Figure 1).

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URL LINK: https://youtu.be/R1Hp255Ng9c

TITLE: Philippine health care system documentary
AUTHOR/S: GMA News
DATE PUBLISHED: 2007
KEY INFO: It depicts the poor healthcare system is in the Philippines and how it can affect the people specifically for those who are less fortunate or in rural areas.

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URL LINK: https://nro11.neda.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Davao-Region-Recovery-and-Resiliency-Program.pdf

TITLE: Davao Region
Recovery and Resiliency Program
to Mitigate Losses from COVID-19 and to Adapt to the New Normal, 2020-2022
AUTHOR/S: National Economic and Development Authority XI Regional Development Council XI
DATE PUBLISHED: August 24, 2020
KEY INFO: The Davao Region Recovery Program (RRP) intends to resurrect the economy and strengthen its resistance to future pandemics of a comparable scale.

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URL LINK: https://www.undp.org/sites/g/files/zskgke326/files/migration/ph/MinDA-SEIA-2021---Signed---20-March-2022.pdf

TITLE: COVID-19 SOCIOECONOMIC
IMPACT ASSESSMENT
IN MINDANAO
AUTHOR/S: MinDA and UNDP
DATE PUBLISHED: March 20, 2022
KEY INFO: The pandemic has inflicted many adversities upon the Mindanaoan region, crippling low-class households, impacting businesses and industry, and many other socioeconomic facets.

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17.) Webinar or Lecture or Ted Talk (Tiu)

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17.) Webinar or Lecture or Ted Talk (Tiu)

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URL LINK:
https://youtu.be/9KTfQskU0yo

TITLE: Webinar #70 | “COVID-19 Outbreak sa Probinsiya”
AUTHOR/S: TVUP
DATE PUBLISHED: September 17, 2021
KEY INFO: Talks about the situation in different
provinces and the challenges in vaccination,
testing, treatment, and care.

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Webinar #70 | “COVID-19 Outbreak sa Probinsiya”