January 26, 2021 NEGROS Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson confirmed that the four Negrense returning overseas Filipinos (ROFs) suspected of having the United Kingdom Covid-19 variant were subjected to re-swabbing.
Lawyer Rayfrando Diaz, provincial administrator, identified the suspected cases as the couple from Pontevedra who came from London, a teacher in Talisay City who came from the US Virgin Islands and a Bago City resident who came from Egypt.
Lacson said the specimen of the ROFs were sent Monday, January 25, 2021, to the Philippine Genome Center as only Philippine Airlines agreed to carry them to Manila.
The four tested positive for the coronavirus and came from countries that were banned due to confirmed cases of the UK variant, he added.
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Published December 22, 2020, 11:26 AM
BACOLOD CITY – A police officer assigned to the intelligence section was gunned down by unidentified motorcycle-riding gunmen in front of the town mayor at the Reclamation area in Barangay 1-Poblacion, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental on Tuesday.
Policemen check the crime scene at Barangay 1- Poblacion, Pontevedra, Negros Occidental, where an intelligence officer was shot dead by unidentified perpetrators on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of Eden Aboso)
Killed was Staff Sgt. Ildefonso Casugod, 37, of Barangay Recreo. He was assigned to Pontevedra Municipal Police Station.
Capt. Hancel Lumandaz, town police chief, said Casugod was biking in the area when he saw Mayor Jose Maria Alonso and decided to approach the mayor. However, one of the two perpetrators shot Casugod.
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