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Over 46K BuCor inmates jabbed vs. Covid-19

(File photo) MANILA - Over 94 percent of persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in prison facilities throughout the country have received jabs against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said on Wednesday. In its latest report, Bucor Health and Welfare Services director, Chief Supt. Henry Fabro, said out of a total of 48,572 PDLs nationwide, 46,405 or 94.8 percent have been vaccinated, 25,238 of whom were fully inoculated. The number represents those in the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City, the Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, the San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm in Talisayan, Zamboanga City, the Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Puerto Princesa in Palawan, the Leyte Regional Prison in Abuyog, Leyte, the Davao Prison and Penal Farm and the CIW Mindanao. In NBP, the country's biggest penal facility, over 99 percent of PDLs at the Reception and Diagnostic Center (RDC), medium security compound, and minimum security compound have been vaccinated. Meanwhile, the BuCor reported a 96-percent vaccination rate at the NBP's maximum security compound. (PNA) }

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Lakas-CMD chair Sara Duterte condemns Zamboanga ambush killing Basilan mayor

Davao City Mayor and Lakas-CMD chairperson Sara Duterte on Tuesday strongly denounced the killing of Al Barka, Basilan Mayor Darussalam Saguindilan Lajid in Zamboanga City on Monday morning.

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Basilan town mayor, driver killed in Zambo City shooting

SHOOTING INCIDENT. Policemen check the crime scene at the seaside in Barangay Baliwasan, Zamboanga City, where a shooting incident occurred Monday (Dec. 6, 2021) resulting in the death of two persons including Mayor Darussalam Lajid of Al-Barka, Basilan. Mayor Alih Sali of Akbar of the same province, meanwhile, was wounded during the incident. (Photo by Ely E. Dumaboc) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Police authorities have launched an in-depth probe into a shooting incident that resulted in the death of two persons, including a Basilan town mayor, on Monday in this city. Another Basilan town mayor was wounded in the same incident that took place around 8:31 a.m. Monday at the seaside in Barangay Baliwasan, this city. Maj. Chester Natividad, city police Station 11 chief, identified the slain town official as Mayor Darussalam Lajid of Al-Barka municipality and Barad Nuruddin, cousin and driver of Akbar Municipal Mayor Alih Sali, who was wounded in the same incident. Lajid and Nuruddin were rushed to the hospital but were declared dead on arrival by the attending physician while Sali is now recuperating in the hospital. Natividad said an initial investigation showed that the victims came from Basilan and have just disembarked from a speed boat that fetched them to this city. He said the victims were walking towards their waiting vehicles when repeatedly shot with .45 caliber pistols by four gunmen aboard two motorcycles. The perpetrators, who remain unidentified, sped off after the incident. Natividad said that all possible motives are being looked into by police investigators to solve the case. The remains of Lajid and Nuruddin were immediately shipped by their relatives to Basilan province aboard a speedboat for interment in accordance with Islamic burial rites. (with reports from Ely E. Dumaboc/PNA) }

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33.5K vaccinated in Zambo City on Day 1 of nat'l vax days

FREE RIDE. Residents of Guisao, Zamboanga City, disembark from a village vehicle that provides free rides to encourage more people to get vaccinated on Tuesday (Nov. 30, 2021), the second day of the three-day national vaccination campaign. Some 33,587 residents were vaccinated on Monday (Nov. 29), which was lower than the city's 38,992 daily target. (Photo courtesy of Zamboanga City PIO) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Almost 34,000 residents got vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on the first day of the nationwide vaccination drive here on Monday, although the figure is still a little short of the city's daily target. This prompted Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar on Tuesday to reiterate her call for residents here to unite in the battle against Covid-19 and get themselves vaccinated. Salazar made the call as this city fell short of its target to vaccinate 38,992 individuals daily in the ongoing three-day National Vaccination Days. Data from the city health office showed that 33,587 were vaccinated Monday - the first day of the November 29 to December 1 National Vaccination Days - which is 5,405 short of the 38,992 target vaccination. "Let us unite to show our strength as a city in the fight against Covid-19," Salazar said. "Get vaccinated so that we will have a happy Christmas," she added. The city health office said 29,254 of the 33,587 total vaccinees received their first dose, while 4,333 got their second doses. A total of 52 vaccination centers here were opened during the first day of the mass immunization drive slated to culminate on Wednesday. The conduct of the "Bayanihan, Bakunahan" vaccination campaign is pursuant to Proclamation 1253 that President Rodrigo Duterte signed on November 24. The three-day activity caters to both pediatric and adult individuals. Meanwhile, some of the barangays in the city have provided a free ride to and from the vaccination centers Tuesday to encourage more people to get inoculated. (PNA) }

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DOJ wants BuCor detainees included in 3-day vax drive

HIS TURN. An inmate at the San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm in Zamboanga City gets his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in this June 2021 photo. The Zamboanga City Health Office allocated Sinovac vaccines. (Photo courtesy of SRPPF-BuCor) MANILA - The Department of Justice (DOJ) will recommend the inclusion of Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs) in the three-day nationwide vaccination activities. Secretary Menardo Guevarra said the DOJ will request the National Task Force Against Covid-19 to include PDLs in Bureau of Corrections facilities during the November 29 to December 1 mass inoculation drive. "I understand that we have millions of doses available for this big event so this is the opportune time to consider the health of our PDL who are at risk of infection due to prison overcrowding," Guevarra told reporters via text message on Monday. A total of 17,295 PDL have received the Covid-19 vaccines as of data released last week, representing 35.52 percent of 48,689 inmates in BuCor-run facilities located in the National Capital Region (NCR), Mindoro Occidental, Zamboanga City, Palawan, and Davao del Norte. Of the total, 4,173 are fully inoculated as of November 9. In NCR, the Correctional Institution for Women in Mandaluyong City has 3,100 of 3,360 PDL fully vaccinated while 10,997 at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, or 39 percent of 28,516 inmates, have likewise been inoculated although some have yet to complete their doses. Also fully vaccinated are 60 out of 7,230 inmates at the Davao Prison and Penal Farm in Davao del Norte and 1,003 of 2,304 at San Ramon Prison and Penal Farm in Talisayan, Zamboanga City. To date, 600 out of 2,387 at Sablayan Prison and Penal Farm in Mindoro Occidental and all 822 detained at Leyte Regional Prison in Abuyog have the first dose. The Iwahig Prison and Penal Farm in Puerto Princesa, Palawan has yet to vaccinate any of its 2,729 inmates, BuCor data showed. (PNA) }

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DOE tells Zamboanga gov't to flex muscles vs 'exorbitant' fuel prices

Fuel costs in Zamboanga are more or less P10 higher compared to prevailing prices in neighboring cities and provinces

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Zamboanga Peninsula now third in list of high-risk regions

For a region that once had one of the least COVID-19 cases in Mindanao, Zamboanga Peninsula now registers a high-risk hospital occupancy rate of 71.5%

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Zamboanga City's mortuaries struggle to cope with increasing COVID-19 deaths

Zamaboanga City has recorded 75 deaths from October 1 to 17

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Hospitals overwhelmed as Zamboanga fears 3rd wave

'Many of us are on sick leave. We, health workers, get exhausted, too,' says nurse Myleonor Alcoriza

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Mourners at Zamboanga monastery recall hope Aquino imparted

Mourners at Zamboanga monastery recall hope Aquino imparted
Jun 27, 2021 1:38 PM PHT
Frencie Carreon
As the evening grew darker and the 10 pm Zamboanga curfew drew close, people rushed to the monastery along Roseller T. Lim Boulevard to offer individual prayers. The visitors recalled how Aquino had finalized his decision to run for president during a retreat inside this monastery in 2009.
HANDS. Then senator Benigno Simeon Aquino III shakes hands with nuns at the Carmelite Discalced Sisters monastery in Zamboanga City in 2009. Photo by Anton Lim
Anton Lim
Zamboanga, dubbed the "City of Flowers," was true to its name that day. The flowers offered were mostly fresh chrysanthemums from the city's florists and cutflower farms. They were mostly yellow, the color associated with the Aquino family since the '80s.

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