Docs warn of shortage in healthcare frontliners; Hospital devoted to COVID-19 cases pushed
ILOILO City – As local government
units across Region 6 scramble to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19), various societies of doctors in...
Gratuity pay for Bacolod workers sought
BACOLOD City – Mayor Evelio “Bing”
Leonardia asked companies in this city to consider giving gratuity pay for
their employees affected by the nearly month-long general...
PRO-6 opens hotlines for ‘fake news’ complaints
ILOILO City – The Police Regional
Office 6 (PRO-6) has opened hotline numbers through which the public could
alert it about people spreading “fake news” on...
WVMC lab to start COVID-19 testing
ILOILO City – Two specialists from the
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Manila are here to
kick-start analyzing specimens taken from Ilonggos suspected of...
Coronavirus cited for crime rate skid
ILOILO City – The coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) is believed to be a factor in the dramatic drop in crime rate
across Western Visayas – 62.31...
PECO DENOUNCES MORE ‘HARASSMENT’
ILOILO City – Amid the enhanced community
quarantine order here, MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) has cut off
the power at Panay Electric Co.’s...
COVID-19 case sparks discrimination; healthcare workers ostracized
ILOILO City – Healthcare workers of The
Medical City in Molo district were being ostracized from their boardinghouses
and barangays following the confirmation that Western Visayas’...
Pavia resident in trouble for COVID-19 ‘fake news’
ILOILO – A
resident of Barangay Pandac, Pavia town faces a charge for violation of the
Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
The 51-year-old
Adelbert Pedregosa, said to be...
VIRUS NOW IN ILOILO: Contact tracing of first COVID-19 patient underway
ILOILO – A 65-year-old resident of
Guimbal town is the first patient confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) in this province, the Department...
‘Prov’l hospitals must brace for COVID-19’
MANILA – As the country grapples to halt
the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), provincial hospitals must be
prepared and equipped for possible patients of...