27-day-old baby youngest coronavirus patient in WV
ILOILO – A 27-day-old baby boy in Estancia, Iloilo became Western Visayas’ youngest person to contract SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019...
Iloilo City adopts skeleton force up to 50% operational capacity
ILOILO City – Government agencies and private firms have been directed to operate with up to 50 percent of their total workforce on-site during...
Drive-thru COVID test site opens in Bago City
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – The local government of Bago City, Negros Occidental opened its first drive-through testing site for coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19), citing a...
Blackout hits Panay Island, parts of Negros
ILOILO City – Power interruption hit the entire Panay Island and Negros Occidental yesterday.
According to the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP), the...
Concepcion LGU locks down 58 households in barangay
ILOILO – Beginning at 6 a.m. yesterday, 58 households in Sitio Proper, Barangay Jamul-awon, Concepcion, Iloilo were placed on surgical lockdown.
A new case of...
One cop to be deployed in every WV barangay
ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) is deploying one personnel in every barangay across Western Visayas to bolster police-community partnership and anti-crime...
Iloilo City gov’t starts mass coronavirus test
ILOILO City – More than 700 city hall employees took coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests yesterday during the first day of mass testing at...
Bacolod PUJ drivers hit suspension of operation
BACOLOD City – Several drivers and operators of public utility jeepneys staged a protest in front of the old city hall appealing for help...
2 Cabatuan ‘seniors’ die of COVID-19
ILOILO – A 65-year-old female and a 60-year-old male residents of Cabatuan town diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) died in separate hospitals in...
Virus takes luster off Bacolod’s MassKara
BACOLOD City – For the first time in four decades, this city will not celebrate the world-famous MassKara Festival this October as local authorities...