Leyte town posted 1st COVID-19 case involving an LSI from Cebu
TACLOBAN CITY-A town in Leyte province posted its first case of coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19) as the regional office Department of Health (DOH) reported of three new cases, raising the regional total to 614.
The town...
Quarantine bars Popcom to distribute over 500,000 pills and condoms in the region
TACLOBAN CITY-More than 500,000 condoms and pills remain undistributed by the Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) here in the region due to the quarantine.
This was disclosed by Elnora Pulma, Popcom regional director, who...
234 new cops take oath in Eastern Visayas
PALO, Leyte- A total of 234 new policemen took their oath on Wednesday (July 1) at the Camp Ruperto Kangleon grounds, this town.
Brigadier General Bernabe Balba, director of Police Regional Office (PRO)-8, congratulated the...
Health exec says swab testing all LSIs is resource draining; suggest of placing them...
TACLOBAN CITY – Subjecting all arriving locally stranded individuals (LSIs) to swab test is resource draining.
Instead these returning LSIs should be immediately isolated or quarantined by their respective local government units, Roderick Boyd Cerro,...
‘Most wanted’ shot dead by Ormoc cops after opening fire to officers
TACLOBAN CITY- A 35-year old man listed among the most wanted was shot dead by policemen after he allegedly opened fire on officers serving an arrest warrant in Ormoc City last June 30.
The fatality,...
COVID-19 isolation center for health workers, frontliners to rise in Biliran
TACLOBAN CITY-The province of Biliran will soon have its isolation center intended for health workers and other frontliners who are infected with the coronavirus.
The two-storey facility will have a 50-bed capacity with the construction...