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DAVAO City – A six-day-old baby girl is the youngest survivor of the Covid-19 pandemic in Davao region after recovering from the highly contagious infection after being put on quarantine for 23 days.
DAVAO City ― All mayors and governors of Davao Region have agreed to extend the 15-day enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), which will end on April 19, for another seven days or until April 26, City Mayor Sara Duterte said.
DAVAO City ― Local health authorities here believe that the Davao Region is starting to “flatten the curve” after seeing more patients recovering from the coronavirus disease with no new confirmed cases reported over the past few days.
DAVAO City ― The urn containing the cremated remains of 2nd Lt. Vince Magbanua, was brought home by his twin brother, 2nd Lt. Vico Magbanua on board a C-295 aircraft last Friday, for turnover to their parents.
DAVAO CITY – The Department of Health Region 11 has recorded a total of 50 recoveries from the 90 positive cases of Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as of yesterday, April 11.
Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte said she was willing to procure several test kits for massive testing to curb the growing number of Covid-19 patients in the city, but added she was having second thoughts because the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine, considered the gold standard test for the detection of the disease, could only process 60 to 65 specimens daily.
DAVAO City ― A call center agent of a business process outsourcing company here who was suspected of having contracted the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) died on Wednesday evening, City Mayor Sara Duterte said.