CONTACT TRACING NEEDS TO IMPROVE: No tracing yet for WV’s 1.5K COVID cases
ILOILO City – No contact tracing has yet been launched for 1,532 confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Western Visayas. These were...
Region 6 COVID cases exceed 5K; 1.12% of WV’s population already tested
ILOILO City – Cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Western Visayas surged to 5,140, the Department of Health (DOH) reported yesterday.
Some 2,000 new...
Barotac Nuevo restricts entry of Dumangasnons
ILOILO – The municipal government of Barotac Nuevo has restricted the entry of people from adjacent Dumangas town.
Only the following may enter Barotac Nuevo:
*...
Drug surrenderer shot inside house
ILOILO City – A drug surrenderer was shot by two armed men in his house in Barangay Sto. Niño Sur, Arevalo district on Wednesday.
Fifty-one-year-old...
‘WE CAN’T LET OUR GUARD DOWN’: Alimodian still requires RT-PCR test, quarantine for ROFs
ILOILO – In the municipality of Alimodian, the 14-day quarantine requirement for repatriated overseas Filipinos (ROFs) is still mandatory. Local authorities don’t want to...
Afternoon fire hits 12 houses in Arevalo
ILOILO City – Four houses were totally gutted and eight others were partially damaged when fire struck a neighborhood in Barangay Calaparan’s Zone 11,...
Poor water quality riles subdivision homeowners
ILOILO – For months now, residents of Deca Homes residential subdivision in Barangay Jibao-an, Pavia town have been complaining about the quality of water being...
DOH: COVID test not mandatory for pregnant women
ILOILO City – Not all pregnant women are required to undergo coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) test when they go to a hospital for obstetrical...
Ilonggo COVID vaccine volunteer gets 2nd dose
ILOILO – Ilonggo nurse Ramon Francisco Sonico who got an initial shot in a clinical trial of a potential coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine...
Lambunao ‘kap’ dies of COVID-19 complications
ILOILO – The village head of Barangay Daanbanwa, Lambunao, Iloilo died due to complications from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Edgardo Gonzales, an immunocompromised patient, passed...