TACLOBAN CITY- Some officials in the region have expressed their support on the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to run for Vice President in next year’s elections.
Both Governors Ben Evardone of Eastern Samar and Reynolds Michael Tan of Samar said that their decision to support the purported vice presidential run of Duterte would mean continuity of the programs and services implemented under his administration.
“We fully support it.We need continuity to pursue all the development in our region, in particular, and the whole country in general (and) we need a leader who is firm and has compassion during this pandemic,” Evardone said.
Gov. Tan echoed the sentiment of his Eastern Samar counterpart adding that it was under his administration that some major problems besetting the country are sincerely addressed like insurgency and illegal drugs problem.
For Northern Samar Rep. Paul Daza, who belongs to the opposition Liberal Party, the President could run for any position under the country’s democratic system.
“PRRD running for Vice President is note expressly prohibited by the Constitution, what is prohibited is for him to run for reelection. It’s no different when mayor runs for vice mayor,” he said.
“At the end of the day, if voters want continuity, they have the option to vote for him. If people disagrees, vote for someone else. That’s democracy, Philippine style,” Daza added. (JOEY A. GABIETA)
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Mayor Romualdez vows to support youths who undergo work internship program
youths who have availed of said work internship program. (TCIO)
TACLOBAN CITY- The Public Employment Service Office (PESO) together with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) regional office conducted an orientation for the beneficiaries of this year’s program implementation.
Around 100 youths, aged 18 to 24-year-olds, attended the said orientation on Tuesday (August 24) wherein Mayor Alfred Romualdez gracing the said activity.
The city mayor vowed to support all the programs that will uplift the welfare of the citizenry.
The JobStart program consists of four phases that include client registration, and client assessment, 10 days of life skills training as well as technical training and internship both with a maximum period of three months.
Due to the current COVID19 situation, said beneficiaries will undergo LST via online beginning August 31 to September 13, as confirmed by PESO. (TACLOBAN CITY INFORMATION OFFICE)
DOH reports 2 new cases
Region has now 14 Delta variant cases
TACLOBAN CITY- A pregnant woman from a Leyte town is one of the two persons from the region who were tested to have the Delta variant of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
This was confirmed by Dr. Marc Steven Capungcol, head of the epidemiology and surveillance unit of the Department of Health (DOH-8), who said that the region has now 14 Delta variant cases, considered to be the most infectious of COVID-19 variants.
He, however, said that one of the two latest cases is still in Manila and in isolation but was counted as a case from the region as he listed his home address as Hilongos, Leyte.
Capungcol said that the eight-month old pregnant woman is from Hindang town, also in Leyte, and is now in isolation at the local government unit-run facility.
“She appears to be asymptomatic. She returned last August 9 from Davao City and travelled to Manila on her way to Tacloban. She was picked up at the Tacloban airport by her brother who was tested negative,” the health official said.
Both new cases of Delta variant in the region were returning overseas workers.
Capungcol said that of the 14 Delta variant cases of the region, only four are considered as ‘active.’ The other active cases were from Borongan City in Eastern Samar and Kawayan in Biliran province.
With the presence of Delta variant and other variants in the region, Capungcol renewed their calls for the public to strictly follow all the mandatory health protocols as he vowed that the DOH, together with the local government units, on the vaccination campaign.
Based on the data of the DOH-8, 560,092 individuals have received their first dose of which 259,662 of them have completed the vaccination.
The DOH has also reported that the Eastern Visayas has so far received over one million doses of vaccines of which 624,010 vaccines are Sinovac.
More vaccines are expected to be received by the region, the DOH added.
Meantime, the DOH reported of 198 new COVID-19 cases on Friday (August 17), increasing the region’s total cases to 40,445 with 1,312 considered as active cases.
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