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Duterte hasn't destroyed but mere plays rigodon

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Downloaded photo. CTTO Pres. Rodrigo R. Duterte hasn't destroyed the oligarchy by the singular act of closing ABS-CBN. He hasn't even destroyed the Lopez clan. He only succeeded in shuttering a TV station and gagging a significant media segment from exercising their right of survival and freedom of expression. Donwloaded. CTTO Add to that, and this is a significant sequel, by shutting down ABS/CBN and handing its frequency to DBN of Dennis Uy and his cohorts from China, Duterte merely rearranged the oligarchy putting to the front rows his oligarch-cronies and the backseat those he dislikes. Nothing new, in fact. There is no destruction but merely rigodon of oligarchs.

Locked down hospital reopens

Even sans lab results DOH rule seeks discharge from facility quarantine of asymptomatic persons even if earlier tested Covid19 positive CITY (July 13) -- St. Paul’s Hospital in Iloilo City reopens today, 14 days after lockdown due to its six resident physicians who tested Covid19 positive. Dr. Ella Mae Divinagracia, SPH spokesperson, tells reporters the Department of Health (DOH) - Region 6 here has given the religious-run hospital the go-signal to reopen though the results of swab tests of its 1,500 workers are yet to be released. All those quarantined and tested but remained asymptomatic are presumed 10-14 days after to have recovered and safe from contaminating others, she adds. “It defeats the purpose. Had the results been released a day after the swabbing, our patients and workers would have been spared the ordeal of being confined that long,” she says. The DOH “sub-national” laboratory here does not report on its backlog of 2,600 "unprocessed specimens" thou...