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North Korea silent on apparent detention of US soldier after bold border crossing

EDGARDO HERNAL
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North Korea silent on apparent detention of US soldier after bold border crossing

SEOUL, South Korea. North Korea has remained silent about the detention of an American soldier who dramatically crossed the heavily fortified border between North and South Korea as fellow members of his tour group looked on in shock. Heightened tensions between the two countries have led some observers to believe that his return may not happen any time soon

Private Travis King made a daring bolt into North Korea while on a tour of the Demilitarized Zone on Tuesday, a day after he was supposed to return to a U.S. military base. He had been released from a South Korean prison on July 10 after serving time for assault and was scheduled to return to Fort Bliss, Texas.

King, who served a 47-day sentence, faced discharge from the Army due to his conviction in a foreign country, according to an anonymous U.S. official citing the sensitivity of the matter.

This incident marks the first known instance of an American held in North Korea in nearly five years, occurring amidst elevated animosity between the two nations. On the same day of King’s border crossing, North Korea test-fired two ballistic missiles into the sea, seemingly in protest of the deployment of a U.S. nuclear-armed submarine in South Korea for the first time in decades.

“It’s likely that North Korea will use the soldier for propaganda purposes in the short term and then as a bargaining chip,” said Yang Moo-jin, president of the University of North Korean Studies in South Korea.

The 23-year-old cavalry scout with the 1st Armored Division was supposed to depart for Texas on Monday. He was escorted to customs but left the airport before boarding his plane.

The hours leading up to his border crossing remain unclear. He joined the tour group in the border village of Panmunjom and ran across the border Tuesday afternoon. The Army realized he was missing when he did not arrive in Texas as expected. Military officials released his name and limited information after notifying King’s family.

King’s imprisonment resulted from an altercation that occurred last year.

In February, a court fined him 5 million won ($3,950) after convicting him of assaulting an unidentified person and damaging a police vehicle in Seoul last October, according to a transcript of the verdict obtained by The Associated Press.

The ruling mentioned that King was also accused of punching a 23-year-old man at a Seoul nightclub, but the court dismissed that charge as the victim did not want King to be punished.

King’s maternal grandfather, Carl Gates, shared that his grandson joined the Army approximately three years ago because he “wanted to do better for himself.” Gates mentioned that King was influenced by his brother, a police officer, and a cousin in the Navy.

Gates expressed his hope for King’s safe return and suggested that his grandson might be facing some difficulties or issues at present. “I can’t see him doing that intentionally if he was in his right mind,” Gates said.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that the administration is working to determine King’s location, condition, and reasons for crossing into North Korea. The focus is on ensuring his safe return to his family.

The American-led U.N. Command stated on Tuesday that the U.S. soldier is believed to be in North Korean custody.

As the U.S. and North Korea lack diplomatic relations and remain technically at war, it remains uncertain how or if communication will occur between the two countries. In the past, Sweden, with an embassy in Pyongyang, provided consular services for other Americans detained in North Korea. However, diplomatic staff reportedly have not returned to North Korea since the country imposed a COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020.

While rare for Americans or South Koreans to defect to North Korea, over 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea to escape political oppression and economic difficulties since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War.

Tae Yongho, a former minister at the North Korean Embassy in London and now a South Korean lawmaker, suggested that North Korea might be pleased to have an “opportunity to get the U.S. to lose its face” due to King’s crossing happening on the same day as the U.S. submarine’s arrival in South Korea.

During the Cold War, only a small number of U.S. soldiers went to North Korea, including Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and fled across the DMZ. Jenkins appeared in North Korean propaganda films and married a Japanese nursing student who had been abducted from Japan by North Korean agents. Jenkins passed away in Japan in 2017.

In recent years, some American civilians have been arrested in North Korea on allegations of espionage, subversion, and other anti-state acts, but were eventually released after high-profile missions sent by the U.S. to secure their freedom. The last such releases occurred in 2018.

These releases contrast sharply with the tragic fate of Otto Warmbier, an American university student who died in 2017, just days after being released by North Korea in a coma following 17 months in captivity.

Barong-barong, ginawang drug den: 3 nasakote

Arman B. Cambe
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Barong-barong, ginawang drug den: 3 nasakote

BACOOR CITY, Cavite. Nalambat ang tatlong suspek, kabilang ang caretaker ng isang barong-barong na ginawang drug den, sa isinagawang pagsalakay ng mga ahente ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) at pulis-Cavite kamakalawa ng gabi sa lungsod na ito.

Kinilala ang mga suspek na sina Mark Anthony Delos Santos alias “Koykoy”, 37 anyos na driver ng shuttle service at hinihinalang drug den maintainer; Ian Kenneth Daraman, 33 anyos na driver; at Vincent Rivas, 20- anyos; na mga kliyente sa droga ni Delos Santos.

Sa ulat ng pulisya, alas-7:20 ng gabi nang salakayin ng pinagsanib na pwersa ng PDEA-Cavite Provincial Office at Bacoor City Police Station ang nabanggit na drug den sa Phase 3, Santan corner Dahlia, Citi Homes, Brgy. Molino IV.

Naaktuhan ng raiding team sa lugar ang tatlong suspek at nakumpiska sa kanila ang mahigit 15 gramo ng shabu na aabot sa halagang P103,500, kasama ang isang cellular phone, buy-bust money, at iba’t ibang drug paraphernalia.

Michigan charges 16 fake electors with Eelection law and forgery felonies

Venus L Peñaflor
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Michigan charges 16 fake electors with Eelection law and forgery felonies

LANSING, Mich. Michigan’s Attorney General, Dana Nessel, a Democrat, filed felony charges on Tuesday against 16 Republicans who acted as fake electors for former President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. They are accused of submitting false certificates that falsely confirmed they were legitimate electors despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

All 16 individuals will face eight criminal charges, including forgery and conspiracy to commit election forgery. The top charges carry a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison. Among those charged are Kathy Berden, the head of the Republican National Committee’s Michigan chapter, Meshawn Maddock, former co-chair of the Michigan Republican Party, and Stan Grot, Shelby Township Clerk.

In seven battleground states, including Michigan, Trump supporters signed certificates falsely stating that Trump had won their states, not Biden. While these fake certificates were ultimately disregarded, the attempt has come under investigation, including by the House committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

In a statement, Attorney General Nessel said, “The false electors’ actions undermined the public’s faith in the integrity of our elections and, we believe, also plainly violated the laws by which we administer our elections in Michigan.”

The 16 individuals are scheduled to appear for arraignment in Ingham County on dates provided to them by the court, as stated by Nessel’s office. As of now, several of the charged individuals have not yet responded to requests for comment.

One of those charged, 82-year-old John Haggard from Charlevoix, told The Detroit News that he didn’t believe he had done anything wrong.

GOP state Senator Ed McBroom, who chaired a GOP-led Senate panel investigating Michigan’s 2020 presidential election and found no evidence of wrongdoing, said he had spoken with one of the fake electors and it was evident that the effort was organized by individuals who positioned themselves as authorities and misled others.

Apart from Michigan, false Electoral College certificates were also submitted for Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, with investigations ongoing in some of those states.

Georgia’s prosecutor investigating potential illegal interference in the 2020 election has reached immunity deals with at least eight fake electors. Arizona’s Democratic attorney general is in the early stages of a probe, while Nevada’s attorney general, also a Democrat, stated no charges would be brought. Wisconsin, on the other hand, has no active investigation, and the attorney general has deferred to the U.S. Justice Department.

However, there is no apparent investigation in Pennsylvania, where former Attorney General Josh Shapiro, now governor, stated he didn’t believe there was sufficient evidence to meet the legal standards for forgery regarding the actions of fake electors.

In Michigan, besides the charges against the 16 fake electors, a group of other Trump allies, including former GOP attorney general candidate Matthew DePerno, are facing potential criminal charges related to their attempts to gain access to voting machines after the 2020 election.

According to documents released last year by Nessel’s office, five vote tabulators were taken from Roscommon and Missaukee counties in northern Michigan, as well as Barry County in the western part of the state. These tabulators were subsequently broken into, and “tests” were performed on the equipment.

A grand jury was convened in March, upon the request of a special prosecutor, D.J. Hilson, to consider indictments. In May, Hilson wrote in a court document that “a charging decision is ready to be made.”

The saga of a great writer and poet

Melinda Bagsic Evangelista
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The saga of a great writer and poet

19th of a series

Betrayed Hearts: A Journey of deceit and redemption

From an active local leader with so much ideas to share, Romy became a prisoner alternately of our conjugal bed and the wheelchair bought by his children. He turned out to be like a little child totally dependent on me for support in everything he would like to do.

To ease my burden, his kids hired a caregiver who would assist me 24/7 but even with a caregiver, he would not allow me to leave his side holding my hands. One time when I thought he was asleep, I stayed on the chair beside his bed to play ‘Candy crush’. Suddenly he stretched his arms sideways trying to find where I was.

Since I was deeply engrossed by the game, I did not notice what he was doing, causing him to be grumpy for hours. Though I fully understood what he was going through, I admit that there were times when I was turning impatient. I am only human and getting old and tired.

Anyway, everyday was a challenge I needed to overcome. Whenever I was starting to lose my temper, I would remind myself of the vow I made when I married him – to love and to cherish him in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad times till death do us part. I knew what he needed was sympathy, patience, understanding and above all, unconditional love.

Being totally blind is not a joke. I felt his pain and agony. There were moments when I cried in silence especially when he complained of not knowing time and space. Everything is black, he would always tell me and much as I wanted to appease his feelings, I was helpless. All I could do was hold his hands and swear to him time and again that I would continue to love him for as long as we both shall live. At night when his ‘nanny’ was not around to assist me, I would read to him funny anecdotes and poems he wrote in his column.

Sometimes, I would read to him inspirational quotes from the Scriptures to boost his will to fight. As a man who grew up surrounded by friends, he felt sad and alone when nobody calls or visits him at home. I was a hands-on wife who would do anything within my limited power to make him happy.

But mischievous fate played on me…or on us unexpectedly. On the eve of September 29, 2019, my 68th birthday, he revealed something that rocked me to the bone! I realized later I was partly to blame. On that evening when we were lying together in an improvised bed at home, I blurted out of the blue, “next year, we shall be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary, in that span of 20 years, have you ever had sex with anyone?”, to which he readily replied “yes!”. And so I asked, “with whom?” He answered “wag na, baka magalit ka lang”.

I swore I would never get mad so he spilled the name right in my face. Unbelievable! Had he chosen to answer NO, there would be no arguments and the trust I had given to him would remain intact. The days that followed were not the same anymore. I wanted to hate and hurt him but I can’t. More often than not, I would spew unsavory epithets just to get even. Little did I notice that his ‘nanny’ was recording our arguments and sending it to his children.

It was my daughter-in-law, Madeline S. Calanasan caught Romy’s caregiver’ in flagrante delicto, recording our heated argument in front of us. That SOB pretended she was simply watching a display of plants and flowers and even swore “My loyalty belongs to you Mama”. The nerve! 

To be continued

Second Alzheimer’s drug shows modest slowing effect on disease progression with safety concerns

Venus L Peñaflor
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Second Alzheimer’s drug shows modest slowing effect on disease progression with safety concerns

WASHINGTON. Researchers reported Monday that another experimental Alzheimer’s drug can modestly slow the inevitable worsening of the disease, extending patients’ functional abilities by about four to seven months.

Eli Lilly and Co. is seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for donanemab, a lab-made antibody administered through intravenous (IV) infusion. If approved, it would become the second Alzheimer’s treatment to convincingly demonstrate a delay in the progression of the mind-robbing disease, following the recent approval of Leqembi, a drug from Japanese pharmaceutical company Eisai.

Lilly’s Dr. John Sims expressed hope during the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Amsterdam, stating that even though the disease cannot be cured, meaningful treatments are still possible, akin to how diabetes is managed with treatment rather than cured.

In May, Lilly announced positive results from the study involving donanemab, and on Monday, the full study, which included 1,700 patients, was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association and presented at the Alzheimer’s conference.

Both donanemab and Leqembi target sticky amyloid buildup in the brain, a key culprit in Alzheimer’s disease. However, they come with a significant safety concern — brain swelling or bleeding, which was linked to three deaths in the Lilly study.

Scientists believe these drugs may usher in a new era of Alzheimer’s therapy, but they acknowledge that many questions remain unanswered, particularly concerning which patients should try the drugs and the actual benefits they may experience.

Dr. Eric Widera of the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in an accompanying editorial in JAMA that the modest benefits of amyloid-targeted therapy would be more widely accepted if the drugs were low-risk, inexpensive, and easy to administer. However, these drugs currently lack these qualities.

Lilly’s study involved people between the ages of 60 and 85 who were in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Half of the participants received once-a-month infusions of donanemab, while the other half received dummy infusions over 18 months.

During the study, patients were switched to dummy infusions if enough amyloid was cleared from their brains, which occurred in about half of the participants within a year. The researchers also tracked levels of abnormal tau, another culprit in the brain responsible for advancing the disease.

The results showed that both groups experienced decline over the 18-month study period, but those given donanemab declined about 22% more slowly. Notably, the drug appeared to be more effective in earlier stages of the disease, as patients with low to medium tau levels experienced a 35% slower decline.

In practical terms, donanemab slowed patients’ worsening by approximately four to seven months, as concluded in the JAMA report. Among recipients with lower tau levels, 47% remained stable after a year, compared to 29% of those who received the dummy version.

Despite the encouraging results, the main safety concern remains brain swelling or bleeding, affecting about a quarter of donanemab recipients. About 20% of patients experienced microbleeds.

Patients receiving any amyloid-targeted therapy require repeat brain scans to monitor these side effects, which can be costly and time-consuming.

Dr. Mark Mintun of Lilly indicated that temporarily stopping donanemab treatment in responsive patients might help manage these challenges. However, more research is needed to determine if patients may need to resume treatment after stopping.

The study’s demographic makeup, with over 90% of participants being white, raises concerns about the drug’s effectiveness in other populations.

While promising, the results from donanemab and Leqembi have rekindled interest in targeting amyloid buildup, additional approaches are needed. Lilly expects results from a late-stage study of a drug that fights abnormal tau, another hallmark of Alzheimer’s, next year.

PBBM sa ₱20 kada kilo na bigas: ‘Ginagawa namin ang lahat’

Venus L Peñaflor
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PBBM sa ₱20 kada kilo na bigas: ‘Ginagawa namin ang lahat’

Inanunsiyo ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na patuloy na ginagawa ng kanyang administrasyon ang lahat ng makakaya nito upang tuparin ang kanyang pangako na pababain ang presyo ng bigas sa P20 kada kilo, na ipinangako niya noong kampanya noong 2022.

Noong Lunes, Hulyo 17, kinumpirma ng Pangulo na hindi pa niya natutupad ang nasabing pangako. “Iyon pa rin ‘yung ating hangarin na ₱20 na bigas ay wala pa tayo roon pero ginagawa natin ang lahat,” ayon sa Pangulo sa kanyang talumpati matapos pirmahan ang Memorandum of Agreement para sa Kadiwa ng Pangulo kasama ang mga lokal na pamahalaan.

Ayon sa datos ng Department of Agriculture, sa ngayon, Hulyo 17, ang presyo ng bigas bawat kilogram ay nasa ₱36 hanggang ₱48.

Ipinaliwanag ng Pangulo na ang pagpapalawig ng Kadiwa ng Pangulo sa buong Pilipinas ay maaaring makatulong sa pagbaba ng presyo ng mga agricultural products dahil mawawala ang mga “middlemen” sa proseso ng pagbenta.

Dagdag pa niya, “Ang programa ng Kadiwa ay napakasimple lamang at tayo ay ginagawa natin ay pinalalapit natin sa magsasaka ang palengke. Kaya’t ‘yung mga middleman, ‘yung mga added cost ay binabawasan natin nang husto ‘yan. Sa ganyang paraan ay maipagbili natin ng presyo na mababa.”

Sa kabila ng kasalukuyang hamon sa pagpapababa ng presyo ng bigas, patuloy na tinitiyak ng Pangulo sa pagtiyak sa publiko na patuloy nilang pagtutuunan ng pansin at pagsisikapang tuparin ang nasabing pangako sa lalong madaling panahon.

American soldier detained by North Korea after crossing heavily armed border

EDGARDO HERNAL
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American soldier detained by North Korea after crossing heavily armed border

SEOUL, South Korea. An American soldier crossed the heavily armed border from South Korea into North Korea “willfully and without authorization,” U.S. officials said Tuesday, becoming the first American detained in the North in nearly five years amid heightened tensions over its nuclear program.

In a rare and concerning incident, an American soldier crossed the heavily fortified border from South Korea into North Korea without authorization, according to U.S. officials on Tuesday. The soldier’s motives and the circumstances surrounding the crossing have not been immediately disclosed. The four U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, revealed the information ahead of a formal public announcement.

The American-led U.N. Command, responsible for overseeing the area, tweeted earlier that the detained individual was an American citizen who was on a tour of the Korean border village of Panmunjom. The U.S. military in South Korea released a statement confirming that the soldier had “willfully and without authorization” crossed the military demarcation line into North Korea. The soldier is believed to be in North Korean custody, and the U.N. Command is in communication with North Korean counterparts to resolve the situation.

Cases of Americans or South Koreans defecting to North Korea are uncommon, while over 30,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War to escape political oppression and economic challenges.

Panmunjom, located within the 248-kilometer (154-mile)-long Demilitarized Zone, has been jointly overseen by the U.N. Command and North Korea since the end of the Korean War. The area has witnessed occasional bloodshed and gunfire but has also served as a venue for numerous talks and remains a popular tourist destination.

Tours to the southern side of Panmunjom reportedly attracted around 100,000 visitors annually before the COVID-19 pandemic led South Korea to restrict gatherings. However, the tours fully resumed last year after pandemic-related restrictions were eased. In 2018, during a period of inter-Korean engagement, mine-clearing operations were conducted in Panmunjom to transform the village into a “peace zone,” allowing tourists from both sides to move around with more freedom.

In previous incidents, North Korean soldiers have fired on individuals attempting to defect to South Korea. However, the most infamous occurrence took place in August 1976 when two American army officers were killed by ax-wielding North Korean soldiers while attempting to trim a tree that obstructed the view from a checkpoint. In response to the attack, the United States dispatched nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the DMZ to deter North Korea.

The armistice signed at Panmunjom to end the Korean War has not been replaced with a peace treaty, technically leaving the Korean Peninsula in a state of war. The United States currently maintains approximately 28,000 troops in South Korea.

While a small number of U.S. soldiers went to North Korea during the Cold War, defections of American civilians to the North have been rare. One notable case was Charles Jenkins, who deserted his army post in South Korea in 1965 and lived in North Korea for decades before dying in Japan in 2017.

In recent years, American civilians have been arrested in North Korea after allegedly entering the country from China, often facing charges of espionage and subversion. Past incidents of detainment have led to high-profile diplomatic missions securing the detainees’ release.

The most recent releases occurred in 2018 when North Korea freed three American detainees during a period of engagement with the United States. However, the diplomatic efforts ultimately collapsed, and tensions over North Korea’s missile tests have escalated since then.

The soldier’s crossing comes amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s continuous missile testing. In response, a U.S. nuclear-armed submarine visited South Korea on Tuesday for the first time in four decades, demonstrating deterrence against North Korea.

Note: The situation is developing, and further updates may follow as more details emerge.

Minibus nahulog sa fishpond, 10 sugatan

Arman B. Cambe
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Minibus nahulog sa fishpond, 10 sugatan

NOVELETA, Cavite. Sampung pasahero ang nasugatan, kabilang ang isang senior citizen na driver ng isang minibus, matapos itong mahulog sa isang palaisdaan sa Brgy. San Rafael IV, sa bayang ito, kamakalawa.

Batay sa ulat ng pulisya, nangyari ang insidente bandang alas-tres ng hapon habang ang pampasaherong minibus (DXR 117), na minamaneho ng isang nakikilala pa lamang sa apelyidong Tampos, ay papunta sana sa Cavite City proper at dumaan sa may Callero Bridge sa Brgy. San Rafael IV, Noveleta ngunit nagloko ang makina ng minibus, nagekis0ekis ang takbo at hindi nakayang kontrolin ni Tampos ang manibela hanggang sa bumangga ito sa railings at nahulog sa palaisdaan.

Matapos ang mahigit isang oras na rescue operation ng mga miyembro ng Noveleta Municipal Police Station, Noveleta MDRRMO, at Noveleta-Bureau of Fire Protection, nailigtas ang mga sugatang pasahero kasama na ang driver na naipit sa kinauupuan nito.

Kaagad na dinala ang mga biktima sa pinakamalapit na pagamutan upang mabigyan ng agarang lunas.

Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests

Carlo Juancho Funtanilla
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Mammals may have hunted down dinosaurs for dinner, rare fossil suggests

NEW YORK. An unusual find in China suggests some early mammals may have hunted dinosaur for dinner.

The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skeletons intertwined. The find comes from a site known as “China’s Pompeii,” where mud and debris from long-ago volcanoes buried creatures in their tracks.

“It does seem like this is a prehistoric hunt, captured in stone, like a freeze frame,” University of Edinburgh paleontologist Steve Brusatte, who was not involved with the study, said in an email.

The fossil, described Tuesday in the journal Scientific Reports, shows two creatures from around 125 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period.

Even though the mammal is much smaller, researchers think it was attacking the dinosaur when they both got caught in the volcanic flow, said study author Jordan Mallon, a paleobiologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The mammal is perched on the dinosaur, its paws gripping the reptile’s jaw and a hind limb while its teeth plunge into the ribcage.

“I’ve never seen a fossil like this before,” Mallon said.

That mammals ate dinosaur meat had been proposed before: another fossil showed a mammal died with dinosaur remains in its gut. But the new find also suggests that mammals may have actually preyed on dinosaurs several times their size, and didn’t just scavenge ones that were already dead, Mallon said.

“This turns the old story on its head,” Brusatte said. “We’re used to thinking of the Age of Dinosaurs as a time when dinosaurs ruled the world, and the tiny mammals cowered in the shadows.”

The study authors acknowledged that there have been some fossil forgeries known from this part of the world, which Mallon said was a concern when they started their research. But after doing their own preparations of the skeletons and analyzing the rock samples, he said they were confident that the fossil — which was found by a farmer in 2012 — was genuine, and would welcome other scientists to study the fossil as well.

The mammal in the fossil duo is the meat-eating Repenomamus robustus, about the size of a house cat, Mallon said. The dinosaur — Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis — was about as big as a medium-sized dog with a parrotlike beak.

This species was a plant eater, but other dinosaurs were meat eaters or ate both. In the end, dinosaurs were probably still eating mammals more often than the other way around, Mallon said.

“And yet we now know that the mammals were able to fight back, at least at times,” he said.

300 toneladang bangus, tilapia patay sa fishkill sa Batangas

Venus L Peñaflor
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300 toneladang bangus, tilapia patay sa fishkill sa Batangas

TALISAY, Batangas. 300 tonelada ng bangus at tilapia ang apektado ng fishkill sa Taal Lake sa bayang ito sa Batangas, ayon sa Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR-Calabarzon).

Ayon sa ulat, ang fishkill ay nangyari sa Brgy. Sampaloc sa Talisay, ngunit apektado rin ang katabing Barangay Buco dahil dinala ng agos ang mga namatay na isda sa kanilang lugar.

Sinabi ni Sammy Malvas, Regional Director ng BFAR-Calabarzon, na karaniwan itong nangyayari kapag mainit ang panahon at biglaang umulan. Ito ay nagdudulot ng pagbaba ng dissolved oxygen sa lawa, na nagiging sanhi ng fishkill. Dagdag pa niya, kapag nagkakaroon ng pagbabago sa klima, karaniwan ding nagkakaroon ng ganitong insidente.

Patuloy na ginagawa ng BFAR-Calabarzon ang monitoring at water sampling sa Taal Lake upang malaman ang kalagayan nito na may kinalaman sa fishkill.

Samantala, ipinagbabawal ang pagbebenta at pagkain ng mga isdang namatay upang maiwasan ang anumang posibleng epekto sa kalusugan ng mga mamimili.

Ayon sa BFAR, mananatili silang nakatutok sa pagmamanman sa sitwasyon upang agarang makatugon sa anumang pangangailangan at mapanatili ang kaligtasan ng publiko.

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