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| Rape suspect bolts out of Biliran jail Posted: 26 Mar 2021 08:18 AM PDT A MANHUNT is underway in Biliran after a 30-year-old rape suspect escaped from the provincial jail Friday, March 26, 2021. The accused, Simion Combate, bolted out from the custodial facility by climbing the perimeter fence at the rear side of the Biliran Provincial Jail around 12:45 a.m. Friday. The accused is a resident of Sitio Lupa, Barangay Calumpang, Naval, Biliran. (SunStar Philippines)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Tacloban mayor ready to face probe for early Covid-19 jab Posted: 25 Mar 2021 06:47 PM PDT TACLOBAN City Mayor Alfred Romualdez has expressed willingness to be investigated for allegedly "jumping the line" ahead of health workers listed under priority group A1 of the government's vaccination program against coronavirus disease (Covid-19). "If I have violated any guidelines, I am willing to face the consequences," said Romualdez who was inoculated with Chinese-made Sinovac on March 22, 2021. "It pains me to hear that only 50 percent of the frontliners wanted to avail (themselves) of the Covid-19 jab and the remaining vials will be returned to the national government. So I did it to lead my people out of fear," added the mayor. Romualdez, who is a Covid-19 survivor, maintained that he received the jab "to make the people see that it was okay to get the vaccine and take it for protection so that the efforts of the national government will not be in vain." In a statement, the City Government said the vaccine used on the mayor was already an "excess" of the vaccines allocated to the city's health workers following the refusal of other medical frontliners to get inoculated. "Resolution 4, s.2021 of the Interim National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (iNItag) for Covid-19 vaccines states that 'any excess vaccine donation of Sinovac from priority group A1 shall be provided to priority group A4 (which includes local chief executives, who are considered as frontline essential workers),'" read a statement from the Tacloban City Information Office. "To date, out of the 3,164 aimed to be inoculated under priority group A1, the city received a total of 1,860 doses of vaccines, of which 260 are Sinovac and 1,600 are AstraZeneca," it added. Only 1,335 frontline health workers and essential workers both in public and private were able to avail themselves of the inoculation during the vaccine rollout in the city that ended on March 23. (SunStar Philippines)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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