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Cagayan de Oro contact tracers to avail of free Tesda training Posted: 23 Mar 2021 06:57 AM PDT ACTING City Health Officer Dr. Lorraine Nery said Tuesday, March 23, that they have already sent a list of contact tracers in Cagayan de Oro who will undergo the free contact tracing training program of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda). Tesda has urged anew all local government units to avail themselves of the program due to the surge in coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in the country. "We received a communication gikan sa DILG (Department of the Interior and Local Government) and among nabasa ang mo-conduct ani... it is under the program sa Local Government Academy and this is in coordination with Tesda," Nery said. "Kita sa LGU sa Cagayan de Oro, nagpadala na ta og lista sa atong mga contact tracers nga atong ipa avail pud ani sa kani nga program," she added. According to Nery, they also received letters from other Tesda-accredited facilities in Cagayan de Oro, offering free training program to the city's contact tracers. It can be recalled that Tesda started offering free contact tracing program in September 2020 to support the country's fight against the spread of Covid-19. Based on the raw data gathered from the published reports of the agency's regional and provincial offices, at least 332 Tesda scholars have completed their training on Contact Tracing Level II from September 2020 to March 2021. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Cagayan de Oro registers 8 new Covid-19 cases Posted: 23 Mar 2021 06:54 AM PDT CAGAYAN de Oro has recorded eight new coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases, bringing the total number of infections in the city to 4,024. Acting City Health Officer Dr. Lorraine Nery said that of the eight new cases, one is a locally stranded individual (LSI), three are local cases with link, and four are local index cases. Of the 4,024 total Covid-19 cases in the city, 425 are under the returning overseas Filipino workers/locally stranded individuals (ROFs/LSIs) category and 3,599 cases are local transmissions. According to Nery, the 3,599 local cases consist of 189 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs), 1,924 local index cases and 1,484 local cases with link. Cagayan de Oro has recorded 144 active cases, 41 of whom are admitted to the Northern Mindanao Medical Center and other hospitals in the city, 100 are outpatients and three ROFs/LSIs. The city also registered 15 new coronavirus-positive persons who were now tagged as "recovered," bringing the total number of recoveries in Cagayan de Oro to 3,689, with a 91.67-percent recovery rate. Of the figure, 302 are LSIs, 119 are ROFs, and 3,268 are local cases (community: 2,761; Apors: 507). The number of Covid-19 deaths in the city is at 191. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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