DDO Gov. Uy issued Executive Order No. 25-2020

BOUNDARY LOCKDOWN

Davao de Oro---Governor Jayvee Tyron L. Uy issued an Executive Order (E.O.) No. 25 series of 2020 an Order Declaring the Province of Davao de Oro under mandatory community quarantine in all its entry and exit points effective March 19, 2020 and adopting the unified guidelines of the Regional Task Force COVID-19 of Davao Region.

As President Duterte issued Presidential Proclamation No. 922 that places the entire country in the State of Public Health Emergency after the Outbreak of COVID-19 which threatens national security.

On March 19 at 12:01 AM the province of DDO strictly implemented a locked down in its borders with other regions along with all the other LGUs of Davao Region to implement a Regional Lockdown, adopting the unified guidelines of the Regional Task Force COVID-19 of the Davao Region.

On the other hand, The Inter Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF EID) COVID-19 of the Province of DDO has release and Emergency Hotlines or Help lines for the Province and the 11 municipalities as well.

As of March 18, 2020, there were 202 Confirmed Case nationwide with 17 deaths and 7 have recovered while for the province of Davao de Oro, 8 Persons Under Investigation (PUI), 542 Persons Under Monitoring (PUM) while six (6) has been discharged and 1 confirmed cased of COVID-19.

The 21-year-old female who was the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the province was residing in Pantukan and currently confined at DRMC in Tagum City. As per report by the health officials she is now recovering and in a stable condition.

In a radio program “Serbisyo Oro Mismo”, Governor Uy encourages everyone to follow the mandates of the Government to support the policy set by the local chief executives and to follow the "Stay at Home" policy, observe proper hand washing and social distancing.

“Ako muhangyo sa mga taga Davawenyo na karong panahuna magtinabangay ta atuang lantawon dili lang atuang sarili kundili para sa atuang mga silingan ug pamilya ug para sa atuang kinatibuk-ang kumunidad, karon ang panahon nga dapat mag-usa kita, mag cooperate kita sa gobyerno tungod kay dili dali na disease one of the trying times dili lang sa atuang nasud but sa tibuok kalibutan,” the governor said.

 “Ang inyung supurta sa atong mga plano sa gobyerno ang gikinahanglan namu, ug unta musunod tang tanan sa mga policiya nga gi set sa atong mga local chief executives’ para mapugngan ug malabanan king maong problema,” said governor Uy.

The modified EO was released and approved by the governor on March 18, 2020. (Rey Antibo, ID DDO)

The PNP personnel of the Davao de Oro Provincial Police Office and the 3rd Provincial Mobile Force Platoon strictly impliments the lockdown of the Region-XI boundaries during the first day implementation of the regional-wide lockdown for the whole Region 11.

Only Cargos loaded with perishable products and one driver are allowed to travel within the region.

This was taken at the provincial boundary of the province of Davao de Oro in Pasian, Monkayo and the Province of Agusan del Sur.(Photo by Rey Antibo, ID DDO)

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Coronavirus: Asian nations face second wave of imported cases

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Image captionIt comes as these countries had been successful in controlling its domestic cases

South Korea, China and Singapore are among the Asian countries facing a second coronavirus wave, spurred by people importing it from outside.

China, where the virus first emerged, reported no new domestic cases on Thursday for the first time since the outbreak began, a major milestone.

But it reported 34 new cases among people recently returned to China.

Singapore also reported 47 new cases, of which 33 were imported - 30 of them returned Singapore residents.

South Korea saw a jump in new cases on Thursday with 152, though it is not clear how many were imported.

A new cluster there is centred on a nursing home in Daegu, where 74 patients have tested positive.

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Japan reported three new cases on Wednesday. But Hokkaido, the worst-affected Japanese region with 154 cases, is lifting its state of emergency in place since late February, after officials said the spread of the virus appeared to be ending.

Officials have urged people to remain cautious and stay at home, but said there had been "no surge of infected patients that led to the collapse of the medical environment".

"We've carried out powerful measures on refraining from going out, but from now on, we will move into a stage of reducing risks of the spread of infection while maintaining social and economic activities," governor Naomichi Suzuki said on Wednesday.

China's National Health Commission (NHC) reported no domestically transmitted cases in China for the first time since the virus emerged in late December.

It also said there were no cases at all in Wuhan, the outbreak centre which was essentially locked down earlier this year, but 34 cases arriving from abroad.

China's death toll stands at 3,245, however there have been ongoing questions over the reliability of China's data.

All four countries had all been showing success in controlling domestic cases, but there is concern that increases elsewhere could unravel their progress.

South Korea has been praised for its response to the epidemic, which has involved tracing the infection, testing large amounts of people and isolating patients quickly.

The pace of daily new infections has slowed since the outbreak peaked earlier this month. Before Wednesday's increase, the number of people contracting the virus had been in double digits for the last four days.

Health officials have warned there is no room for complacency and are once again urging the public to stay away from large gatherings including in churches, nursing homes, internet cafes and karaoke rooms.

Three people from the national fencing team have tested positive for coronavirus after returning from a competition in Hungary. All 26 athletes and coaches are now being tested.

Read more from Laura: Is S Korea's rapid testing the key to coronavirus?

'Stay home, please'

Much of the focus has now shifted to Europe and the US, but the new numbers signal that the outbreak is far from over in Asia.

Malaysia's senior health office on Wednesday begged people to "stay at home and protect yourself and your family. Please".

Image captionMalaysia has brought in a ban on public gatherings and closed schools

Malaysia, which is under a partial lockdown, has tallied 710 people with the virus, the worst in South East Asia. Many of the cases are linked to one religious event in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, in February.

"We have a slim chance to break the chain of COVID-19 infections," Noor Hisham Abdullah, director general of Health Malaysia, said on Facebook.

"Failure is not an option here. If not, we may face a third wave of this virus, which would be greater than a tsunami, if we maintain a 'so what' attitude."

According to a tally by Johns Hopkins University in the US, there are 215,955 cases and 8,749 deaths globally.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says the vast majority - 80% - have occurred in Europe and the Western Pacific region, which includes much of Asia.

German Embassy Manila ++SPECIAL REPATRIATION FLIGHTS TO GERMANY++

German Embassy Manila
++SPECIAL REPATRIATION FLIGHTS TO GERMANY++

A) LH 343 FROM MANILA/NAIA T1 TO FRANKFURT/GERMANY ON 19 MARCH 2020 AT 23.30 H;



AUTHORITIES ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO GRANT GERMANS WISHING TO AVAIL OF THE FLIGTHS ACCESS TO NAIA T1. FROM 15.30 H:



TICKETS WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE BY EMBASSY STAFF ONLY AT THE AIRPORT AFTER 15.30 H, WITH THE FOLLOWING PRIORITY AND SUBJECT TO CAPACITY:

1) GERMANS WITH CONFIRMATION EMAIL FROM EMBASSY,

2) GERMANS WHO INDICATED INTEREST VIA DEBOMA02@GMAIL.COM,

3) OTHER GERMANS,

4) EU MEMBER STATES NATIONALS



B) UPCOMING REPATRIATION FLIGHTS:

- LH 349 FROM MANILA/NAIA T1 TO FRANKFURT/GERMANY ON 20 MARCH 2020 AT 23.30 H,

- CHARTER FROM CEBU/MACTAN TO COLOGNE/BONN ON 21 MARCH 2020 AT 02.00 H (TBC).



C) FURTHER SPECIAL REPATRIATION FLIGHTS ARE PLANNED IN THE COMING DAYS.



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SONDERFLÜGE für ausreisewillige Deutsche, die sich für einen Kurzzeit-Aufenthalt im Land befinden (Urlauber):

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Germany to reintroduce border controls ...

... with five countries due to coronavirus crisis

A German police officer wearing a facemask controls drivers at the French and German border between the cities of Strasbourg and Kehl on March 12, 2020 as part of measures taken due to the COVID-19 ou

AFP/The Local

news@thelocal.at

15 March 2020

15:43 CET+01:00

Germany will reintroduce border controls with France, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg and Denmark from Monday morning due to the coronavirus crisis, to help stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced the closures on Sunday evening during a press conference.

"The spread of the coronavirus is progressing quickly and aggressively...one of the most important measures will be to cut off the chain of infection," Seehofer told reporters as he announced the new border controls.

The measures will take effect at 8am Monday (and from 6am on the Denmark border) with goods and cross-border commuters exempt.

German citizens and people with a residency permit will be allowed to return to the country.

People "without a significant reason to travel" and those suspected of having been infected with the virus will not be allowed to cross the affected borders, he said.

Seehofer stressed the new controls would be temporary, and would be reassessed "from time to time".

But the high point of the coronavirus crisis had not yet been reached, he warned, urging citizens to avoid social contact.

The decision had been taken after the Robert Koch Institute, which is responsible for public health in Germany, had declared that the French border region of Alsace-Lorraine as a risk area.

"This sparked a lot of questions and unrest in the neighbouring states," he said.

Germany is one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic. The country now has more than 5,500 confirmed coronavirus cases, a jump of over 1,000 compared to Saturday. There are 12 reported deaths.

A source close to the matter had told AFP earlier on Sunday about the planned border closures, confirming a report in the German media.

The popular tabloid Bild had reported that the closures would take effect on Monday.

Closing borders was not only to contain the COVID-19 epidemic but also to prevent panic bulk purchases by foreigners, which was apparently causing supply problems in areas around the borders, according to Bild.

'Limit border crossings to a minimum'

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Seehofer met with state premiers from affected German regions on Sunday to agree the closures, the newspaper claimed.

Paris, meanwhile, said the decision had been taken in coordination with the French government.

Yet the French Interior Ministry insisted that the border would not be fully closed.

"We are going to limit border crossings to the strict minimum, while allowing people and merchandise to go through. It's not a closure," a ministry source told AFP.

While the German measures currently apply to five countries, other neighbouring countries such as Poland and the Czech Republic have also closed their borders or introduced severe restrictions.

Germany had until now resisted closing its borders so as not to endanger the Schengen agreement, which guarantees free travel between European countries and has already been put under strain in recent years by the migrant crisis and the threat of jihadist terrorism.

But with Europe now considered to be the epicentre of the pandemic, calls to close the border with France had begun to emerge shortly before Sunday's decision.

"The spread of the virus has to be slowed. The basic rule should be: anyone who doesn't urgently need to cross the border should not cross the border," said Thomas Strobl, interior minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg state, which borders France and Switzerland.

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Für den Großraum Manila (Metro Manila) gelten ab 15. März 2020 ab Mitternacht bis zunächst 12. April 2020 Ein- und Ausreisesperren auf dem Land-, See- und Luftweg. Quarantäne-Maßnahmen können von den lokalen Gemeinden kurzfristig beschlossen werden. Mit weiteren Einschränkungen muss gerechnet werden.

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Liebe Landsleute,

die Ausbreitung der Atemwegserkrankung COVID-19 führt weltweit zu verstärkten
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So haben auch die philippinischen Behörden aufgrund der Ausbreitung der Atemwegserkrankung
Covid-19 für alle Reisenden aus Ländern mit bestätigter lokaler Übertragung des neuartigen Virus ein
Einreiseverbot verhängt – hierzu zählt auch Deutschland. Betroffen sind auch Transitpassagiere.
Ausnahmen gelten für philippinische Staatsangehörige und deren Familienangehörige sowie für
Reisende mit einer längerfristigen Aufenthaltsgenehmigung für die Philippinen. Diese unterliegen
jedoch nach Einreise gegebenenfalls einer 14-tägigen Quarantäne. Diese Regelung gilt bis auf
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Perfectionism

My column in Mindanao Daily, BusinessWeek Mindanao and Cagayan de Oro Times

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By KLAUS DORING

 March 12, 2020

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MANY of us believe perfectionism is a positive. You may count me in. More often than I’d like to admit, something seemingly inconsequential will cause the same feeling to rear its head again. Something as small as accidentally squashing the makeup, I was bringing my first girlfriend’s family for Christmas can tumble around in my mind for several days, accompanied by occasional voices like “How stupid!” and “You should have known better”.

Falling short of a bigger goal, even when I know achieving it would be near-impossible, can temporarily flatten me. When a former agent told me that she knew I was going to write a book someday but that the particular idea I’d pitched her didn’t suit the market, I felt deflated in a gut-punching way that went beyond disappointment. The negative drowned out the positive. “You’re never going to write a book,” my internal voice said. “You’re not good enough.” That voice didn’t care that this directly contradicted what the agent actually said. And, up to now, I didn't finish my first book, yet... It's already 2020... .

That’s the thing about perfectionism. It takes no prisoners.

If I’ve struggled with perfectionism, I’m far from alone. The tendency starts young – and it’s becoming more common. Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill’s recent meta-analysis of rates of perfectionism from 1989 to 2016, the first study to compare perfectionism across generations, found significant increases among more recent undergraduates in the US, UK and Canada. In other words, the average college student last year was much more likely to have perfectionistic tendencies than a student in the 1990's or early 2000's.

“As many as two in five kids and adolescents are perfectionists,” says Katie, who researches child development and perfectionism at West Virginia University. “We’re starting to talk about how it’s heading toward an epidemic and public health issue.” The rise in perfectionism doesn’t mean each generation is becoming more accomplished. It means we’re getting sicker, sadder and even undermining our own potential.

Here is another great example: a perfectionist, French Claude Monet often destroyed his paintings in a temper while saying, ‘My life has been nothing but a failure'.

Perfectionism, after all, is an ultimately self-defeating way to move through the world. It is built on an excruciating irony: making, and admitting, mistakes is a necessary part of growing and learning and being human. It also makes you better at your career and relationships and life in general. By avoiding mistakes at any cost, a perfectionist can make it harder to reach their own lofty goals.

But the drawback of perfectionism isn’t just that it holds you back from being your most successful, productive self. Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to a laundry list of clinical issues: depression and anxiety (even in children), self-harm, social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, hoarding, dyspepsia, chronic headaches, and, most damning of all, even early mortality and suicide.

“It’s something that cuts across everything, in terms of psychological problems,” says Sarah Egan, a senior research fellow at the Curtin University in Perth who specializes in perfectionism, eating disorders and anxiety.

Culturally, I learned, we often see perfectionism as a positive. Even saying you have perfectionistically tendencies can come off as a coy compliment to yourself; it’s practically a stock answer to the “What’s your worst trait?” question in job interviews. (Past employers, now you know! I wasn’t just being cute).

It is difficult to tell who is motivated and conscientious and who is a perfectionist. In my daily teaching in Davao , I met the student who works hard and gets a poor mark. If she/her tells herself: “I’m disappointed, but it’s okay; I’m still a good person overall,” that’s healthy. If the message is: “I’m a failure. I’m not good enough,” that’s perfectionism.

That inner voice criticizes different things for different people – work, relationships, tidiness, fitness. My own tendencies may differ greatly from somebody else’s. It can take someone who knows me well to pick up on them. (When I messaged one of my friends I was writing this story, he immediately sent back a long line of laughing emojis).

Perfectionists can make smooth sailing into a storm, a brief ill wind into a category-five hurricane. At the very least, they perceive it that way. And, because the ironies never end, the behaviors perfectionists adapt ultimately, actually, do make them more likely to fail.

Thinking of perfectionism, makes me think of my own childhood peppered with avoiding (or starting and quitting) almost every sport there was. If I wasn’t adept at something almost from the get-go, I didn’t want to continue – especially if there was an audience watching. In fact, multiple studies have found a correlation between perfectionism and performance anxiety even in children as young as 10.

Mental health problems aren’t just caused by perfectionism; some of these problems can lead to perfectionism, too. One recent study, for example, found that over a one-year period, college students who had social anxiety were more likely to become perfectionists – but not vice versa.

In many ways, poorer health outcomes for perfectionists aren’t that surprising. “Perfectionists are pretty much awash with stress. Even when it’s not stressful, they’ll typically find a way to make it stressful,” says Gordon Flett, who has studied perfectionism for more than 30 years and whose assessment scale developed with Paul Hewitt is considered a gold standard. Plus, he says, if your perfectionism finds an outlet in, say, workaholism, it’s unlikely you’ll take many breaks to relax – which we now know both our bodies and brains require for healthy functioning.

After all, many of us live in societies where the first question when you meet someone is what you do for a living. Where we are so literally valued for the quality and extent of our accomplishments that those achievements often correlate, directly, to our ability to pay rent or put food on the table. Where complete strangers weigh these on-paper values to determine everything from whether we can rent that flat or buy that car or receive that loan. Where we then signal our access to those resources with our appearance – these shoes, that physique – and other people weigh that, in turn, to see if we’re the right person for a job interview or dinner invitation.

Fear of failure is getting magnified in other ways, too. Take social media: make a mistake today and your fear that it might be broadcast, even globally, is hardly irrational. At the same time, all of those glossy feeds reinforce unrealistic standards.

In my opinion, and I am not alone with it, it’s the idea that you don’t have to be perfect to be lovable or to be loved. It’s a work in progress. And,  what I’ve noticed too, is that, each time I’m able to replace criticizing and perfecting with compassion, I feel not only less stressed, but freer. Apparently, that’s not unusual.