ILOILO CITY: The Iloilo government has hired eight more personnel to guard the ports and beef up the screening of passengers who are potential carriers of the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (2019-nCoV ARD).

Six personnel will be deployed to the Dumangas port while the other two will be assigned at the Estancia port, where roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessels operate, Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. said on Friday.