(Photo from Ariel Fernandez)
Col. Christian Melchor, chief of the Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group-National Capital Region, said the passengers presented fake negative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results purportedly from the Philippine Red Cross.
Melchor identified the passengers as Miko Aski, 19; Nuraina Husbani, 28; Laila Sahang Muksan, 27; and Mariam Akmad, 24. All four are residents of Lower Bicutan in Taguig City.
It was disclosed that Aski and Husbani were prevented from leaving for Zamboanga at 9:30 a.m. on April 3 while Muksan and Akmad, who were bound for Cotabato, were stopped at the airport at 4:30 p.m. on the same day.
Taguig Mayor Lino Cayetano. (FILE PHOTO/ PNA/ MANILA BULLETIN)
In his weekly video report posted on the city’s official Facebook page, Cayetano said one of these vaccination centers is the Lakeshore complex in Barangay Lower Bicutan.
A dry-run will be scheduled in these areas to be witnessed by representatives of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) and other agencies.
Forty schools that will serve as community vaccination centers are also being readied to ensure that all logistical requirements are in place when the vaccines arrive.
As for vaccine storage, Cayetano said the local government has inked an agreement with world-class Orca Cold Chain Solutions Inc. for the use of its 6,500-square-meter facility in Barangay Bagumbayan.
Published December 30, 2020, 1:09 PM
As the world reels from the effects of COVID-19, the local government unit of Taguig City has put effective interventions in place to protect its constituents and address their needs amidst the rapid economic downturn.
Right after President Rodrigo Roa Duterte declared a State of Public Health Emergency in March, the local government, under the leadership of Mayor Lino S. Cayetano, immediately implemented a lockdown in the city an aggressive step aimed at arresting the spread of the novel coronavirus.
(JANSEN ROMERO / MANILA BULLETIN)
The city also set into motion a number of actions that had been laid out in a comprehensive program, including the distribution of stay-at-home packs; free rides for health workers and those who are sick (Libreng Sakay and Libreng Hatid at Sundo); telemedicine; testing; and distribution of various forms of aid to different sectors of the community.
Published December 27, 2020, 1:33 PM
The Taguig City Police will file a complaint for parricide (three counts) against a father who is suspected of killing his wife on Christmas eve and two kids on Christmas Day.
Taguig City Police Chief Col. Celso Rodriguez told Manila Bulletin that the complaint will be filed today (December 28) against Aiko Siacunco, 29 of Kamias St., North Signal, Taguig City before the city prosecutor’s office of Taguig where he will undergo inquest proceedings.
He said the police determined that Siacunco killed his wife Karina on Dec. 24 and murdered his two kids, Akira, 3, and Kion, 1, at about 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 25.