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January 19, 2021 THE 19th Davao City Council strengthened the law penalizing a person using or producing falsified or tampered Covid-19 medical test results or other health verification documents in the city through an ordinance passed under third and final reading on Tuesday, January 19. Acosta, proponent of the measure, said the ordinance was crafted following the recent apprehension of 22 air passengers at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport, also known as the Davao International Airport. The persons were caught by the Airport Health Monitoring Team for submitting a fak...

DAVAO CITY, Jan. 15 (PIA)- The chief of the City Tourism Office has appealed to Davao City-bou

Published January 14, 2021, 2:36 PM DAVAO CITY – The Real-Time-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing of arriving passengers at the Davao International Airport (DIA) for free has been suspended. The RT-PCR, considered as the gold standard for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing, is one of the requirements of Davao City for arriving passengers coming from different regions. City Tourism Operation Office (CTOO) head Generose Tecson said that the city is redirecting its resources to address the local COVID-19 transmission since the city has the highest number of cases, with 1,376 a...

Published December 24, 2020, 11:08 AM DAVAO CITY – Air travelers have been cautioned against fake laboratories in Metro Manila offering cheap coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests after the local government of Davao reported that majority of the passengers who presented invalid test results upon their arrival at the Davao International Airport since August were scammed, City Tourism and Operations Office head Generose Tecson said. During an interview over Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR 87.5) on Wednesday, Tecson said that of the 21 passengers who were caught with invalid reverse transcripti...

Published December 22, 2020, 8:12 AM DAVAO CITY – Five passengers from Manila were caught at the Davao International Airport (DIA) on Monday for presenting fake reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results upon their arrival. This was confirmed by City Tourism Office head Generose Tecson who reported that the number of passengers arrested for showing fake coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test results since last week had reached nine. Mayor Sara Duterte, in an interview over Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR 87.5), said the  passengers from Manila were allegedly tested...