

CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 18 May) — Barring any delays, the laboratory of the government-owned Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) will start processing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests this Thursday, May 21. However, Dr. Joselito Retuya, epidemiologist at the Cagayan

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 18 May) — Twenty-one more New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, including four unit leaders, have surrendered to police and Army personnel in South Cotabato province. Lt. Col. Lino Capellan, spokesperson of the Police Regional Office

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 18 May) — Health personnel in South Cotabato have launched an extensive tracing of persons who possibly had close contact with a patient from Polomolok town who tested positive for the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Traffic on the lane going to downtown Davao City from Bangkal at 10:22 a.[] m. is still heavy on 18 May 2020, the first Monday under General Community Quarantine. The vehicles on the road are mostly private cars and trucks.
NAGA CITY (MindaNews / 18 May) — As the extended unilateral ceasefire of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-New People’s Army (NPA) expired at midnight of April 30 without an extension — just like the earlier non-extension by the
There used to be just two of them that the cats shared their food with just outside our kitchen. Two frogs there were (or are they toads?), but that was some months ago because in time they became four and

KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 18 May) —After more than a month, the dreaded coronavirus disease (COVID-19) reared its ugly head anew in Soccsksargen (Region 12), with four more positive cases recorded since Friday, bringing the total to 20, the Department




