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“Don’t be stressed out. This is not the same ECQ as last year,” Defensor said. The national government’s COVID-19 Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) had placed Iloilo City and Iloilo, which consists of 42 towns and a component city, under ECQ since July 16. While residents of Iloilo initially panicked when the ECQ announcement was made, Defensor said the IATF’s amended omnibus guideline on ECQ does not have the same prohibitions as the ECQ last year. Under the new ECQ guideline, public transportation is allowed in Iloilo. There is also no border restriction while quarantine passes are n...

SunStar Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia (File photo / Cebu Provincial Government's Facebook) + July 15, 2021 CEBU Governor Gwendolyn Garcia tops the job approval rating of 81 governors in the Philippines, based on a recent independent survey. The survey, conducted by RP-Mission and Development Foundation Inc. (RP-MD), was based on data gathered from the regions in June 2021 and analyzed by the group. “But I don’t want to take personal credit for it. I’d rather hope that this recognition would, in fact, recognize Cebu as the top-performing province in the country today becaus...

Published July 8, 2021, 1:35 PM ILOILO CITY – Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. has stressed the proper storage of vaccines after 167 doses of Sinovac vaccines were spoiled in San Enrique. He urged local government units (LGUs) in Iloilo not to be negligent in the proper storage of COVID-19 vaccines. “Storage of these vaccines must be improved,” Defensor emphasized. The Department of Health (DOH) Western Visayas (Region 6) and Iloilo Provincial Health Office (IPHO) are investigating the May incident at the COVID-19 storage facility of the San Enrique LGU. San Enrique Mayor Trixie Fernande...

DEFENSOR ILOILO CITY – Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. thinks new variants of COVID-19 exist in Iloilo and the rest of Western Visayas. In a press conference, Defensor said he suspects the presence of “foreign variants” that may have caused the spike of new cases and deaths in almost all areas of We

ILOILO CITY – As COVID-19 cases rise in Iloilo, Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. formally instituted the Provincial Civil Defense Service of Iloilo (ProCiD Serv Iloilo). In Executive Order No. 2021-173 issued May 26, Defensor also instituted the Provincial Civil Defense Operations Center (ProCiD OpCen) and