Leonardo Vicente B. Corrales, known by the pen name "Cong," is the Editor-in-Chief of Mindanao Gold Star Daily. A journalist since 2008, he previously served as Deputy Director for the PCIJ Multimedia Desk. His investigative work on climate justice and peace initiatives has appeared in global outlets including Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and The Philippine Daily Inquirer.
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CITY hall’s Incident Management Team has cordoned off an area in Sitio Macanhan, Barangay Carmen, this city, following the confirmation that a patient from the place who died at a hospital here on May 15 had Covid-19.
CATACLYSMIC events always bring out the best and the worst in people. Cagayan de Oro residents are no exemption. My family has witnessed this during typhoon “Sendong.”
CAGAYAN de Oro preparedness and response cluster heads announced over the weekend that the distribution of relief goods in the city’s 80 barangays would begin this week.
LOOK: An ambulant vendor on motorcycle hawks fruits in Barangay Consolacion, this afternoon, despite the call of Mayor Oscar Moreno for residents to stay indoors.
BARANGAY Health Emergency Response Teams (Bherts) in the city, working to prevent the spread of Covid-19, found 602 “persons under monitoring” (PUMs). Of the people classified as PUMs, 319 are females while 283 are males.
I LOST a dear friend. George Bagsic, one of the popular folksingers in the city died of cardiac arrest on Friday night.
A biker in Abellanosa St., this city, disinfects his motorcycle before riding it. Although the city has been placed under community quarantine, groceries, pharmacies, and banks remain open.
Cagayan de Oro residents buy fresh vegetables and spices from one of the stalls at the city hall quadrangle. The stalls are part of the city's commemoration of the ongoing Women's Month. Photo by Cong B. Corrales
CAGAYAN de Oro City Mayor Oscar Moreno has declared a community quarantine across this city's 80 barangays, today.
YESTERDAY, the “community quarantine” of 12,877,253 people in Metropolitan Manila was on its second day. The lockdown officially started Sunday.
PUBLIC support for the frontliners in efforts by the state-run Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) to contain the 2019 novel coronavirus (Covid-19) and prevent it from further spreading started to trickle in last week and city hall called for more if only to boost the morale of the hospital’s workers.
THE situation at the state-owned Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) has gone from bad to worse.