ILOILO CITY – This city is under a state of calamity due to a dengue outbreak.
The Iloilo City Council approved the recommendation of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council during a session on Wednesday, August 28.
THE Iloilo City Hall seen from Plaza Libertad. (Tara Yap)
The Iloilo City Health Office has recorded 42 new dengue cases.
Nine-hundred forty-five dengue cases and four fatalities were recorded from January 1 to August 27.
The state of calamity declaration paves way for the release of the quick response fund amounting to more than P7 million.
This was the third such declaration here. The first was last March for water shortage. The second was for pertussis or whooping cough last April which was recently lifted.