Members of the zoning containment strategy kiosk in a huddle outside the premises of Magnakron Oleo Phils. Inc., where 18 factory workers are in an isolation facility of the company after being found infected with the Covid-19 virus. 173 Mambulao factory workers cleared of virus after swab tests; two found positive   By ALFREDO P. HERNANDEZ   Tensions and fears among the Mambulao town residents in CamNorte cooled off today after the 173 workers at a local factory were cleared of Covid-19 virus following their swab tests last night. “Yesterday and last night, the 175 employees (of Magnakron Oleo Phils, Inc.), went through Antigen (swab) tests, and only two were found positive,” says Mayor Ariel M. Non in his Facebook post today, updating the crisis at the premises of the factory. He identified the two recent cases as the company security guard and a factory worker. They have been confined to the municipal isolation facility at Jomapa Convention Center in town. The cleared workers hav

  The zoning containment strategy kiosk monitoring the movements of company personnel. Mambulao town in CamNorte in deep health crisis after 18 local factory workers hit by virus   BY ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ   THE  town of Mambulao in Camarines Norte has been plunged into a deep health crisis after 18 workers at a factory on the town’s outskirts were hit by the Covid-19 virus. Most of the infected workers are living with their families in Mambulao two kilometers away from the factory. They are now in an isolation facility within the company premises, monitored by the Municipal Health Office staff. Contact tracing is now being carried out to find out the persons who had the last contact with those infected. The company, Magnakron Oleo Philippines, Inc., which has a coconut processing factory, has been placed under critical zone and granular lockdown. A location map showing Bragg Osmenia where Magnakron Oleo Phils, Inc operates. . The company is  in Baranggay Osmenia about two kilometers awa

 

  SWEET ORANGES … An array of colorful fresh fruits would greet with glee a mamimili at the newly installed fruit section of the Mambulao public market. This interesting part of the market came to the scene very recently. Thanks to the efforts of the Mambulao LGU for giving importance to these vital food items in our daily diet -- the fruits of our labor.  See the story in this edition of MWBuzz.

A frontline worker checks the temperature of a passenger in the car at a checkpoint in town.   Overseas Mambolenos worried: Are our families safe from Covid-19?   By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ   Overseas Mambolenos and those away from home are worried about their families’ safety against the entry of a new Covid-19 variant called “Delta”. But the local government has assured it was working fast to vaccinate citizens for added protection. A resident gets her jab at a vaccination center in her baranggay. Already, all the health workers had received the jabs, while those for all Seniors were to come in batches, depending on the dose budget from the provincial unit of the Department of Health (DOH). Mambolenos have lauded the move of the local government unit (LGU) to first vaccinate the Senior Citizens. A native of Parang now living in Australia was relieved to know that her 94-year-old mother back home was an on queue for the jab. The elderly, identified only as “Nanay Elvie”

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