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Bacolod City, Negros Occidental— With the official filing of Certificate of Candidacy of the 2022 elections kicking off tomorrow, October 1st, incumbent Congressman Greg Gasataya

Former Councilor, lawyer Caesar Distrito​, confirmed today, September 29, that he was invited by businessman Albee Benitez to be his running mate for the 2022 local elections.

The Emergency Operations Center-Task Force (EOC-TF) in this city has an urgent message to Bacolodnons to get the anti-COVID-19 vaccine now as cases for this month continue to rise.

The Department of Education (DepEd) has included Alangilan National High School for its evaluation for the conduct of limited face-to-face classes, according to Bacolod City School Division Superintendent Gladys Amylaine Sales.

The Bacolod City COVID-19 Vaccination Council (CoVaC) continues to ramp up its vaccination drive against the deadly coronavirus that cause 112 death just this month alone.

A total of 33 houses were damaged and1 house was fully destroyed due to flooding that was triggered by the heavy downpour in Cauayan town on September 22, a report from the Provincial Disaster Management Program Division of the capitol showed.

In its latest bulletin, the health department said that both the city and the province were place at alert level 4 as case counts are high or increasing and health care capacity is at high utilization.

Four hospital in Bacolod said that it will no longer accept new COVID-19 patients until further notice as they struggle for additional staff to attend to patients and due to lack of COVID-19 beds.

The provincial government is building a P100-million Center for Emerging and Re-Emerging Diseases which will be jointly funded by the provincial government of Negros Occidental and the Department of Health (DOH) Facilities Enhancement Program through the Office of Senator Bong Go.