LTFRB-6 office on 4-day lockdown today; employee contracts virus

ILOILO City – The regional office of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) in Barangay Quintin Salas, Jaro district begins a four-day...
Locally stranded individuals (LSIs) return home to Negros Occidental from Metro Manila via a sweeper flight that landed at the Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City last week. Twelve more residents of the province – all either LSIs or overseas Filipino workers – tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019. PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

LSIs urged to submit requirements ahead

BACOLOD City – “Send your requirements a week ahead because you are not the only ones coming home.” This was the advice of councilor Cindy...

27 cops exposed to 2 colleagues with COVID

ILOILO City – Twenty-seven policemen are quarantining while waiting for the results of their coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests. They were exposed to two colleagues...

Phil. Army Soldiers guard locked down barangays

ILOILO City – Philippine Army soldiers have been tapped to help enforce the lockdown in  barangays ordered to be under such due to rising...
“Ma-lift lang ang lockdown kon makagwa ang result sang aton 40 [Rural Heal Unit] personnel,” says Mayor Francis “Ansing” Amboy of Maasin, Iloilo. FILE PHOTO

COVID hits Maasin rural health chief

ILOILO – The Rural Health Unit (RHU) of Maasin, Iloilo was temporarily closed. Its municipal health officer contracted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Mayor Francis “Ansing”...

Barangay Poblacion, Badiangan locked down

ILOILO – Mayor Serafin Villa Jr. of Badiangan town ordered the lockdown of Barangay Poblacion. A call center agent with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infected...

4 hospitals reach ‘critical’ occupancy rate – DOH

ILOILO City – The occupancy rate in the facilities for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases of four Western Visayas hospitals under the Department of...

Bacolod ‘kap’, wife positive for COVID

BACOLOD City – The village chairman of Barangay Singcang here and his wife tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Rosinie Distrito and his wife...
A husband and his wife in Lapuz, Iloilo City get ready to travel using their motorcycle with a plastic barrier separating them. The barrier aims to ensure physic al distancing between the driver and back-rider to prevent the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

No more barriers needed for riders from same home

MANILA – Motorcycle barriers are no longer required for pillion riders living in the same house under Iloilo City’s general community quarantine status (GCQ). The...
Personnel of the Iloilo City Health Office collect mouth swab samples from a police officer inside Multipurpose Hall of Camp Delgado. More than 250 personnel of the Police Regional Office 6 and Iloilo Police Provincial Office had their specimens collected for coronavirus disease 2019 testing. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Over 250 cops take COVID-19 test

ILOILO City – More than 250 personnel of the Police Regional Office (PRO) 6 and Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) underwent reverse transcription-polymerase chain...