CCMC second and third floors to accommodate patients on Sept. 18

Dyrecka Letigio 08/18/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) has opened the second and third floors of their new building in a ceremonious soft opening on August 19, 2021. Cebu City acting Mayor Michael Rama said…

Mobile freezers to provide free storage for bodies in Cebu City

Dyrecka Letigio 08/17/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City is set to receive from private donors, including Senator Richard Gordon’s Red Cross, two mobile freezers for storing deceased bodies. Cebu City Councilor David Tumulak said they are seeing this as…

EOC needs more step-down facilities

Dyrecka Letigio 08/17/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The hospital utilization rate in Cebu City has seen a slight drop from 75.6 percent to 72.7 on August 17, 2021, showing an improvement to the admission rate of COVID-19 patients. Based on…

Cebu City dad suspects sabotage, scam over cadaver storage

Dyrecka Letigio 08/17/2021

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak said there may have been a scam perpetrated by some funeral parlors with regards to storing deceased bodies in the city. This he said after meeting with…

Funeral home owner says cadavers in ‘bodega’ were not abandoned

Dyrecka Letigio 08/17/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The management of St. Bernard’s Funeral Homes in Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City insisted that the bodies found in a bodega in Barangay Basak San Nicolas that was recently found in a raid by…

Cebu City MOD to limit entry to some portions of Carbon Market from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Dyrecka Letigio 08/17/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Market Operations Division (MOD) plans to limit the entry of market-goers at certain portions of the Carbon Market from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. daily. MOD head Irvin Cabales said…

Cebu City breaches 100 mark for COVID-19 deaths in half a month

Dyrecka Letigio 08/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City has breached the 100-mark for casualties of the COVID-19 in only half a month in August 2021. Councilor Joel Garganera, deputy chief implementor of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), said that…

Cebu City increases incentives to public school honor graduates

Dyrecka Letigio 08/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City government has amended an ordinance giving incentives to public school students, who graduate with honors, to serve as an encouragement for students to study more diligently. Councilor Alvin Dizon proposed an…

Garcia: National policy on not swabbing upon arrival ’caused’ rise of Delta variant

Dyrecka Letigio 08/14/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu Governor Garcia hit back at Doctor Edsel Salvana, an Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) adviser, who claimed that the surge of the Delta variant cases in Mindanao was due to the leniency of…

Construction of new tombs will only take 5 weeks — Guardo

Dyrecka Letigio 08/13/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The construction of the proposed new tombs in four major Catholic cemeteries in Cebu City will take approximately only five weeks to complete. However, this can only start once Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma…

Harsher penalties for PUVs for violating health protocols – Cuenco

Dyrecka Letigio 08/13/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Harsher penalties are now imposed on public utility vehicles (PUVs) that will violate the health protocols in Cebu City. Councilor  James Cuenco said the City Council passed an amendment of the ordinance regulating…

Cebu City to CIDG: Investigate selling of vaccines

Dyrecka Letigio 08/13/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is asking the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to investigate reports of individuals selling vaccine slots. On the Facebook Page of a student organization in a medical university,…

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