Ajuy village on 15-day ‘voluntary lockdown’

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ILOILO – Residents of Barangay Rojas in the northern municipality of Ajuy agreed to observe what Mayor Jett Rojas described as a 15-day “voluntary lockdown” following...
HOME AWAY FROM HOME. A classroom at the Iloilo City Community College in Molo district has been temporarily converted into a billeting area for healthcare workers barred from returning to their boardinghouses or barangays from their work in hospitals. The Department of Health is appealing to Ilonggos not to discriminate healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus disease. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Do not evict frontliners vs COVID – Jerry

Iloilo
ILOILO City – Boardinghouse operators throwing out tenants who are healthcare workers during this time of enhanced community quarantine against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) face...
“We are very lucky may ara kita laboratory and test kits. So ang pwede ta ma-swab, i-swab ta na,” says Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘TEST MORE PEOPLE’ | WV COVID tally now at 18 as 2 more in...

Iloilo
ILOILO City – This city and Iloilo province have two more residents who tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with both appearing to be...
The municipality of Calinog, Iloilo has closed its border with Lambunao town following the confirmation that a resident of Lambunao tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019. The municipality, and the whole province of Iloilo for that matter, is under an enhanced community quarantine to stop the spread of the disease. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Calinog closes border with Lambunao

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ILOILO – The municipality of Calinog closed its border with Lambunao town. The Department of Health (DOH) confirmed the other day that a 70-year-old resident of Lambunao...

ICPO wary of surge in illegal gambling activities

Iloilo
ILOILO City – The enhanced community quarantine could drive economically-displaced people to play games of chance for money. The Iloilo City Police office (ICPO) is wary of a...
The Department of Health has designated Western Visayas Medical Center in Iloilo City as the health facility dedicated to coronavirus disease cases. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

DOH: Not all COVID cases will be handled by WVMC

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ILOILO City – Not all coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Western Visayas would be lumped at the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) in Mandurriao district,...

Netizen sorry for posting ‘fake news’ about Treñas

Iloilo
ILOILO City – The netizen who posted on Facebook that Mayor Jerry Treñas took a test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) following a close contact with...
The four latest COVID-19 positive cases in Region 6 were tested at the Western Visayas Medical Center, says Dr. Mary Jane Juanico, focal person on the coronavirus disease 2019 of the Department of Health Region 6. Western Visayas has 5,000 COVID-19 test kits from the DOH central office. Each test kit can process 22 specimens for a total of 110,000 for the whole region, says Juanico. IAN PAUL CORDERO

LOCAL COVID-19 TRANSMISSION? Cases with no travel history puzzles DOH

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BY GLENDA TAYONA and IME SORNITO ILOILO City – Is there already local or community transmission of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Western Visayas?  Two of...
At the Jaro district gymnasium, personnel of the Iloilo City Government prepare these sacks of rice donated by the private sector for repacking and distribution to residents economically displaced by the enhanced community quarantine being observed to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

625 quarantine-hit businesses seek help

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ILOILO City – Adversely affected by the enhanced community quarantine being observed to keep the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) 2019 at bay, 625 private establishments in Western Visayas...
Ship Capt. John B. Lacson will temporarily house frontliners battling the coronavirus disease 2019 in Iloilo City. MORE Electric and Power Corp. has completed energizing it. Among the facilities installed by MORE Power included an electric post, three 75 kVA transformers, a primary line, a service line, and an electric meter.

MORE Power energizes ship to house COVID frontliners

Iloilo
ILOILO City – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) has completed energizing the vessel Capt. John B. Lacson that will be used as temporary...
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