Cops play key role in contact tracing’

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ILOILO City – Because policemen have the basic investigation skills and can easily be mobilized, they play an essential role in contact tracing to...

2 women rebels yield after Janiuay encounter

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ILOILO – Two women New People’s Army (NPA) rebels involved in two recent clashes with government troops in Janiuay town surrendered to the Philippine...

‘Not all pregnant women, women about to give birth shall be subjected to RT-PCR’

Iloilo
The Department of Health 6 clarified that not all pregnant women or women about to give birth will be subjected to RT-PCR test. Dr. Sophia...
League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Iloilo Chapter will extend financial aid to communities in Mindanao that were heavily hit by the series of earthquakes last month, says its president Mayor Mediatrix “Trexie” Fernandez of San Enrique. ANGAT BAYI

MAYORS WORRIED; No more quarantine for repatriates

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ILOILO – Mayors here opposed the scrapping of the 14-day quarantine requirement for repatriated overseas Filipinos (ROFs). This latest order of the national government’s task...
‘NEW NORMAL’ FOR THE POOR? With no money for the required ultrasound and reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction test for coronavirus disease, this woman gave birth to a son on the cardboard-covered floor of her small, bare house assisted by a paltera. JIRO SHEEN EMELIO/PN

Giving birth in the time of COVID is tough for the poor

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ILOILO – In this time of coronavirus pandemic, can pregnant women who are about to deliver be refused admission by health facilities? A 29-year-old pregnant...
Vendors inside and outside of Iloilo Terminal Market resume their business, consumers started to make a trade in the market. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Aggressive information drive on COVID-19 health protocols mulled

Iloilo
ILOILO City – The city’s shift to the less restrictive modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) should be coupled with a more aggressive information campaign...
“We have 11 island barangays. All this islands have about 20,000 individuals or 4,500 families affected by the bad weather. They cannot buy food,” says Mayor Raul Banias of Concepcion, Iloilo. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Concepcion not accepting LSIs, ROFs temporarily

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ILOILO – The municipal government of Concepcion has temporarily stopped accepting locally stranded individual (LSIs) and repatriated overseas Filipinos (ROFs). According to Mayor Raul Banias,...

WVSU HOSPITAL DECLARES TIMEOUT; Mgt cites surge in patients, healthcare workers with COVID

Iloilo
ILOILO City – West Visayas State University Medical Center (WVSUMC) in Jaro district temporarily stopped accepting patients in all of its clinical departments as...

WV’s oldest COVID-19 case dies

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ILOILO – A 105-year-old man in Maasin town diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) became the oldest patient in Western Visayas to succumb to...

‘Ber’ months begin; Iloilo cops beef up anti-criminality ops

Iloilo
ILOILO City – The start of the so-called “ber months” means busier days ahead for both police and criminals in this city and Iloilo...
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