Olympian Irish Magno excited to return to Iloilo
ILOILO – Boxer Irish Magno said she’s excited to go back home in Janiuay town after competing in the women’s flyweight category at the...
Efforts underway to hasten genomic sequencing
MANILA – To speed up genomic sequencing, efforts are underway to equip the Philippine Genome Center (PCG) in Visayas based at the University of...
Non-residents off-limits to Oton town
ILOILO – Barangay control points are up in every barangay in Oton town. Village officials also started requiring quarantine passes. Movement is limited to...
Detainees get anti-COVID jabs
ILOILO City – A total of 300 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Iloilo District Jail Male Dormitory of the Bureau of Jail...
Police, Army lash out at rebels over soldier’s death
ILOILO City – Cowards and human rights violators.
This was how the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) and the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID)...
South Korean fugitives captured
ILOILO City – For overstaying and fraud, two South Korean nationals – both fugitives in their country – were arrested in Boracay Island in...
PRO-6 nets 7,366 persons engaged in illegal activities
ILOILO City – In seven months and 1,905 operations, policemen arrested 7,366 persons involved in various illegal activities in Western Visayas, data from the...
Shorter quarantine for vaxxed individuals? ‘No policy yet in NegOcc’
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental’s provincial administrator, Atty. Rayfrando Diaz, said the province has no policy yet on the shortened quarantine...
Cases of COVID variants in WV now 227
ILOILO City – Cases of various variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in Western Visayas rose to 227.
As of...
COVID beds in capitol-run hospitals 60.65% occupied
ILOILO – As of Wednesday morning, 60.65 percent of the beds dedicated to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in provincial government-run hospitals were occupied.
There...