LOCKDOWN. Covid team spokesperson Jeck Conlu said on Wednesday (Jan. 19, 2022) the implementation of granular lockdown in selected areas in Iloilo City could help arrest its increasing Covid-19 cases. Since the start of the year, the city has implemented the lockdown in at least 17 barangays.(PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY - The implementation of granular lockdowns in selected areas of Iloilo City will help arrest the rising cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Granular lockdown has been imposed in selected areas from the city's 17 barangays with two or more Covid-19 cases, said Jeck Conlu, spokesperson for the Iloilo City Covid team, in an interview on Wednesday. "It is possible that the number will increase if there are local transmissions. The areas, sitio (zones), compound or houses are locked down while we are conducting contact tracing, swabbing and isolation," he said. He said the move is necessary so that once they found out that there is local transmission
ILOILO EXPO. The Iloilo Business Expo opens at the Festive Walk Mall on January 17 and will run until Jan. 23, 2022. The week-long fair aims to help micro, small and medium enterprises badly hit by the health pandemic.(Photo courtesy of PCCI Iloilo) ILOILO CITY - The week-long Iloilo Business Expo (ILOBEX) organized by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) Iloilo will help participating micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), which are the most affected sector by the pandemic. Jordan Toledo, one of the PCCI-Iloilo directors, said on Wednesday that they hoped to generate half a million pesos out of the income-generating project that will run until Jan. 23, 2022 inside two of the malls here. "Our primary aim is to help entrepreneurs, businessmen and women in Iloilo. Due to the pandemic, one of the adversely affected is the business sector," Toledo said in an interview. He added that with the expo, PCCI, which serves as the voice of the business industry, t
PREVIEW. A live performance of a tribe filmed on Dec. 23, 2021 for the competition of the 2022 Digital Dinagyang Festival. A virtual opening salvo will be held on January 14 to usher in the annual festival.(Photo courtesy of Iloilo Festivals Foundation, Inc.) ILOILO CITY - This year, Dinagyang spectators can watch the "opening salvo" of the festival through live streaming on various Facebook (FB) accounts on January 14. "Everybody will still feel our opening salvo, not necessarily going down to the streets of Iloilo City Proper and cheering, but rather we will bring the drums to your homes," Gabriel Umadhay of the Iloilo City Covid team said in a press conference on Tuesday. The opening signals the start of the Dinagyang Festival with participating tribes performing in the city's downtown area giving their audience a preview of their performance during the day of the festival competition. With the restrictions being imposed in this city, currently under Alert Le
OPEN TO VAXXED VISITORS.Public and private cemeteries in Iloilo City are open from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2021 to vaccinated individuals to visit their dead relatives. In a press conference on Thursday (Oct. 7, 2021), Jeck Conlu, spokesperson for the Iloilo City Covid team, said only 50 percent of the capacity of the cemetery will be allowed to visit at a time.(Photo screenshot from virtual presser) ILOILO CITY - Public and private cemeteries in Iloilo City are open from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, 2021 and will allow vaccinated individuals to visit in the observance of All Saints' and All Souls' Days. "We will give them the opportunity to visit their dead relatives since we are already on general community quarantine but with heightened restrictions," said Jeck Conlu, spokesperson for the Iloilo City Covid team in a virtual press conference on Thursday. Their vaccination status may either be complete or first dose, as long as they are inoculated. They are advised to bring their v
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