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The Department of Health in Western Visayas classified Bacolod City as a high risk area for COVID-19 Monday, April 26.Bacolod was classified as a high risk area because its average daily attack rate per 100,000 population grew from 6.18 percent to 7.12 percent in the last two weeks, Dr. Marie Jocelyn Te reported during the DOH Isyung Bakuna online press conference.The growth rate of the COVID-19 cases in Bacolod in the last two weeks was also placed 146.60 percent, she said.The DOH report said the top 10 COVID-hit barangays in Bacolod are Handumanan with 98 active cases, Mansilingan – 79, Estefania -74, Taculing – 63, Villamonte – 56, Mandalagan – 53, Tangub – 47, Alijis -44, Bata -33 and Vista Alegre -20.The Bacolod Emergency Operations Center reported that 12 city baranga...

A woman was killed while her companion was wounded after they allegedly resisted arrest in a drug buy-bust operation at Malaspina Street, Barangay Villamonte, Bacolod City, Monday morning, April 26.It was the second shooting incident in the city in a day.High-value individuals Xiever Louis “Alyas Boss” Rosales and Hilda Trujillo were the subject of a drug bust operation conducted by Regional Police Drug Enforcement Unit-6 operatives, the police reported.The suspects were about to sell four sachets of suspected shabu worth P44,500 to a police poseur buyer when they realized it was a police operation.One of the suspects fired his gun at the police that prompted them to shoot back, which led to the death of Trujillo while Rosales landed in a hospital after sustaining gunshot w...

BCPO photoA former inmate was shot dead by still unidentified suspects in Barangay 13, Bacolod City, Monday, April 26.Police identified the fatality as 52-year-old Benvienido Gellanga of Barangay Singcang-Airport.Based on the initial police investigation, the suspect suffered bullet wounds in the different parts of his body after he was shot multiple times by unidentified riding-in-tandem suspects along Luzuriaga Street, which was 600 meters away from a police station.The victim was jailed for homicide in 2012 and was released from prison in 2018, the police said.The police have yet to establish the motive for the killing.*

Task Force Disiplina photoA long line of voter registrants flocked to the Bacolod Commission on Elections office Monday, April 26.Task Force Disiplina personnel had to remind them to practice social distancing and that only 100 walk-in applicants can be accommodated a day.Bacolod Comelec officer Kathrina Trinio-Caña said they are operating on a skeleton force and can only accommodate 50 online and 100 walk-in registrants a day.She said if one accomplishes and prints out an online voter registration application form, it will ensure an appointment at the Comelec and hasten the registration processA online registrant has to personally appear before the local COMELEC office with three copies of the printed online application form for QR scanning and biometrics capture to co...

15th IB photoTwo alleged rebels were killed in an encounter with state troopers at Sitio Payranan in Barangay Pinggot, Ilog, Negros Occidental, on Saturday, April 24.The troops were conducting pursuit and clearing operations following the Hinoba-an encounter on April 17 that left two rebels dead when they received reports from residents about the presence of wounded members of the New People’s Army in the area.After responding to the reports, the soldiers of the 15th Infantry (Molave Warrior) Battalion encountered around 10 members of the NPA’s Platoon 3 Southwest Front of Komiteng Rehiyon-Negros, Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor (KR-NCBS).A firefight ensued for about 40 minutes that left two alleged rebels dead while no casualties were reported on the government side, an Army press r...

Bacolod PIO photoThe number of senior citizens who received Sinovac jabs in Bacolod City rose to 541 on Monday, April 26, Dr. Chris Sorongon, Emergency Operations Center deputy for medical data and analysis, said.He said 133 more senior citizens were vaccinated on Monday.On Friday, 408 senior citizens in Bacolod City had also been vaccinated.The Department of Health reported Monday that the senior citizens under the A2 category targeted for vaccination in Western Visayas are 747,464.In Bacolod City, the figure is 66,000 senior citizens and in Negros Occidental – 201,985, the DOH said.Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia, in a recorded message released Monday, said he has not had any side effects since his received his first AstraZeneca jab.An ant bite is more painful than...

Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said Monday, April 26, that the provincial government will continue to observe a four-day workweek until the COVID-19 cases in the province drop.Lacson ordered the observance of the four-day workweek on April 12 amid the surge of COVID-19 cases in the province.He said the four-day workweek would lessen the exposure of the provincial government employees to COVID-19.The four-day work will continue until the active COVID-19 cases in Negros Occidental drop to the level two and a half months ago, Lacson said.On Sunday, there were 122 COVID-19 recoveries and 22 new cases in the province so that’s a net recovery of 100, he said.Lacson said he is hoping the trend will continue, as he stressed the need to be vigilant and for everyone to follow health pr...

Forty-six inmates at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) isolation facility in Barangay Handumanan and 19 employees at a talk firm at La Salle Avenue in Bacolod City have tested positive for COVID-19, City Administrator Em Ang said Sunday, April 25.The 19 of about 50 plus employees of an English tutorial firm with Korean clients tested positive for COVID-19 and have been quarantined, Ang, who is also the executive director of the Bacolod Emergency Operations Center, said.The employees have a boarding house behind their office where they live and it is a bit cramped, Ang said.The firm has temporarily been shut down while their work space and living quarters are being disinfected, she said.The employees who tested negative have also been quarantined, Ang added. ...