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June 21 to 27 Iloilo’s Climate Resiliency Week

ILOILO – For people to be more aware of the impacts of climate change, this province has declared June 21 to 27 of every...
The president’s spokesperson Harry Roque says vaccine availability has improved since the WHO set up COVAX to distribute US-made Pfizer and AstraZeneca shots and Sinovac and Sputnik V shots from Russia. INQUIRER/GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

Bacolod opens 4th mall-based COVID vax site

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – To further expedite the inoculation of residents, this city is opening its fourth mall-based coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...
Iloilo City’s Sen. Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Avenue, also called Diversion Road, will soon be equipped with security cameras that could boost the city’s campaign against road violations and even crimes. JAPHET FAJARDO/PN

Non-residents still off-limits to Iloilo until August 7

ILOILO – This province’s borders are still closed to non-residents. Its enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) has been extended up to Aug. 7 by the Inter-Agency...
A healthcare personnel holds a vial of anticoronavirus vaccine. Western Visayas is expected to receive an additional 7,200 Sinovac vaccines today. These will then be distributed to provinces and highly urbanized cities in the region. ARNOLD ALMACEN/CMO

VACCINATION FOR ALL; Iloilo City to open vaccination to all sectors starting August

ILOILO City – The city government will open vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to all sectors starting August. According to Mayor Jerry Treñas, the...
Former Negros Occidental 3rd District congressman Alfredo “Albee” Benitez transfers his voter’s registration to Bacolod City. He is shown here at the Commission on Elections’ Bacolod office registering his finger prints electronically. ARCHIE ALIPALO/PN

Comelec-Bacolod OKs Albees’ voter’s registration transfer

BACOLOD City – The Election Registration Board (ERB) of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) here junked the opposition to the application of former Negros...
With coronavirus vaccines in sight, local government units (LGUs) in Western Visayas are rolling out their plans for procurement and inoculation. Four LGUs in the region are forging tripartite agreements with the national government and British vaccine maker AstraZeneca. REUTERS

WV gets over 1.4M doses of anti-COVID vaccines

ILOILO City – Western Visayas has so far received 1,425,650 doses of vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of July 23, these were the...

NegOcc frontliners’ special risk allowance released

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – The Department of Health (DOH) already released the special risk allowance for frontline healthcare workers in Negros Occidental. Among...

Pandemic keeps protesters off the streets

ILOILO City – Rallies of militant groups across Region 6 were held peacefully as President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his final State of the Nation...
A Negrense receives her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019. As of July 2, 2021 Western Visayas received 25,740 doses from the National Vaccination Operations Center. PROV’L GOV’T OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

No more walk-in vax in Bacolod

BACOLOD City – Beginning today, walk-in vaccination against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in all mall inoculation venues in this city is no longer allowed. Priority...
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COVID hits La Paz monastery: 25 nuns, 9 staff infected

ILOILO City – A total of 34 residents at the Carmelite Monastery and Convent on Jereos Street, Barangay Lopez Jaena Norte, La Paz district...