DAVAO VILLAGE DECLARES CPP- NPA-NDFP ‘PERSONA NON GRATA’ NEW COVID- 19 PATIENT CONFIRMED IN NVIZCAYA

ASUNCION, DAVAO DEL NORTE: Some 150 residents of Barangay Igangon, San Isidro town staged a “peace rally” on June 14 to formally and publicly withdraw any association and support for the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Peoples Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP) and all its legal front organizations. Their place of residence, Barangay Igangon of the said town, also formally declared the organization as persona non grata in their locality, despite having immediate family members as active NPA members. The attendees were all former members of underground mass organizations put up by the local guerilla unit of the CPP-NPA in the area — many utilized as couriers, spies and even saboteurs of government projects and initiatives — who voluntarily submitted themselves to the Community Support Team of the 60th Infantry Battalion deployed in San Isidro.

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: After over a month of no positive coronavirus disease 2019 ( Covid- 19) cases in the province, an overseas Filipino worker ( OFW) was confirmed positive. Dr. Edwin Galapon, Nueva Vizcaya provincial health chief, confirmed the new positive case of Covid- 19 was a 34- year- old male OFW from Poblacion in Diadi town. He said the patient had direct contact with another OFW from Lagawe town in the neighboring province of Ifugao, who also tested positive. Galapon bared that the new Nueva Vizcaya Covid- 19 case arrived in Manila from Jubail, Saudi Arabia on May 20 and reached the province on June 7. The patient is now confined at the Region 2 Trauma and Medical Center here while contact tracing is being conducted.