January 26, 2021 A CONFIRMED Covid-19 positive air passenger is now under the custody of authorities shortly after the Davao City Government announced that he is wanted for tampering with his swab test result.
The City Government posted around 8 p.m. Monday evening, January 25, that a certain Frederick Panol Grande was wanted after he was found to have presented a tampered reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test result upon arrival at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport, also known as Davao International Airport. It was discovered that he tampered with his RT-PCR test result to indicate that he is negative of Covid-19. An email from the testing center proved that he faked the result, the City Government said in a Facebook post.
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Photo by Macky Lim January 11, 2021 QUARANTINE violators in Davao City are now over 21,000 since the Covid-19 pandemic started, the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) reported.
DCPO spokesperson Captain Rose Aguilar said based on their record from March 15, 2020 until January 10, 2021, a total of 21,423 violators were recorded with 6,253 cases already filed at the fiscal s office.
Based on her breakdown, 5,877 were apprehended for violating the mandatory social distancing, 4,445 for mandatory use of food and medicine (FM) pass, 4,122 curfew violators, 2,448 individuals apprehended for failure of placing motorcycle barriers while traveling, 1,918 for those who were caught not wearing face masks in public areas, 1,883 for those with no face shield, 727 for liquor ban, and three individuals were caught for tampering their reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results.