In Baras, Catanduanes province,  Catanduanes Gov. Joseph “Boboy” Cua met with members of the Baras Tricycle Operators and Drivers Association, jeepney drivers association and motorcycle riders and assured them of the provincial government subsidy.

Bicol patient #335 is a 40-year-old female nurse and a resident of Zone 2, Bgy.  Dayangdang, Naga City while  Patient 336, a 40-year-old female bank employee, of DECA Homes Subdivision, Bagumbayan Norte, who is symptomatic, was confirmed positive from dreaded virus on July 24. The third patient coded # 338,  is a 31-year-old priest of the Holy Rosary Major Seminary at Concepcion Pequeña, this city.  A swab test was done on the prelate and he was confirmed Covid positive on July 24.

LEGAZPI City – The province of Albay  closed its borders early yesterday morning  after Albay Gov. Al Francis Bichara signed an executive order amid a spike in the number of persons under monitoring (PUMs) which is now at 14,000.

Swine fever now affects 3 towns, 1 city

CAMALIG, Albay -- A 19-year-old female senior high school student was found lifeless hanging from the ceiling with a malong looped around her neck in Barangay Binitayan here Friday afternoon.

SIX suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels have been charged with frustrated murder before the Provincial Prosecution Office at the Bulwagan ng Katarungan in this city on Friday.

A total of 1,245 hogs afflicted by the African Swine Fever (ASF) have been culled over the week by personnel of the Department of Agriculture (DA) Region-5, as the DA implemented a lockdown on the trade of live and processed pork products in the towns of Bombon, Magarao and Calabanga, all in the third district of C. Sur province.

Police Captain Dexter Panganiban, spokesperson of the Albay Police provincial office said, a representative from Horizontal Builders Corporation owned by contractor “Bucky” Macandog sought assistance from the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Daraga town, that their dump truck at barangay Lacad and a backhoe in barangay Pandan were reportedly on fire. While on their way to the location of the fire, local residents told that minutes earlier, armed men in groups were seen to have set ablaze the heavy equipment.

POLANGUI, ALBAY -- Gasoline in soft drink bottles being sold along the highway exploded and started a blaze in Purok 2, Barangay Tabon in Polangui, Albay on Monday afternoon.

DAET, Camarines Norte – A hotel owner who had gone missing for nine days on Friday was found dead and decomposing in a septic tank of his own hotel in this town.

A TOTAL of 306 communist rebels and sympathizers consisting of 47 regular members of the New People’s Army (NPA), 150 members of the “milisiyang bayan,” 51, members of the “sangay ng partido sa lokalidad,” and 51 mass-based supporters of the local communist movement in Masbate returned to the fold of the government, a spokesperson of the Army’s 9th Infantry Division reported on Friday.

After three days of being stranded at the port, some 10,358 passengers complaned of slow dispatch of both private and commuter vehicles to “roll-on-roll-off” vessels, even as regular trips of seacrafts bound for Masbate and Allen, Samar resumed at 7 p.m. on Wednesday.

LIBMANAN, Camarines Sur – An Asian Utility Express Van bound for Naga City on Thursday was hit by a Philippine National Railways (PNR) commuter train leaving two dead and 15 others wounded in this town.