The New Davao Matina Gallera, which was closed down at the height of the crowd-drawing multi-million peso derby blamed for the spread of the first COVID-19 cases here and in other regions of the country, finally held its first cockfighting derby. /PDI
Smaller crowd at six-cock derby
But police said the event drew a smaller crowd compared to the thousands of people that thronged the derby here at the start of the pandemic. After reports that a patient suspected of having COVID-19, who had earlier gone to the derby, died in a hospital, then-Mayor Sara Duterte, who is the vice president, called off the derby on its final round and issued an advisory, urging those who had gone to the event to quarantine themselves for 14 days.
In the absence of an actual derby in the midst of the pandemic, the city council here passed in June last year, a proposal to allow the holding of online cockfighting to generate revenues for the city.
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