More than 500 families in Santander town get food packs from CPPO

Alven Marie A. Timtim 05/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — It’s still May but personnel of the Cebu Police Provincial Office (CPPO) played Santa Claus to more than 500 families in the mountain barangays of Bunlan and Cabutongan in Santander town in southern…

Cebu logs 56 new cases, 4 COVID-19 deaths on May 9

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH – 7) on Sunday, May 9, 2020, reported 56 new COVID-19 patients that were discovered in the previous day, Saturday (May 8, 2020). As a…

COVID-19 in Cebu City: Mass testing and change in the outbreak’s dynamics 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/10/2020

(PART 1) CEBU CITY, Philippines — Steam inhalation, locally known as tu-ob in Cebuano, has been a common home-made remedy among Cebuanos who suffer respiratory problems and infection. Wrapping their heads in towels, and inhaling the steam…

Minglanilla reports 1st COVID-19 death; places another area in lockdown

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Minglanilla town in southern Cebu on Saturday, May 9, 2020, recorded its fourth confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case, and the first mortality due to the infection. The local government of Minglanilla announced…

Alaska, Mambaling residents’ cry: Food, security

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A Mandaue City Hall of Justice worker is trapped inside Sitio Ypi-ypil in Alaska, Barangay Mambaling, Cebu City since the area has been locked down by Mayor Edgardo Labella on May 6, 2020.…

Labella: Cebu City conducted more swab tests than rapid tests

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella revealed that the city had conducted 4,995 swabs through contact tracing of positive cases in the 32 infected barangays. This is at least 4,300 more than the supposed…

Wearing of face masks spared 48 individuals in Talisay, Cebu from COVID-19

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – All individuals, who came in close contact with Talisay City’s second coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient, tested negative of the virus, Mayor Gerald Anthony ‘Samsam’ Gullas announced on Saturday, May 9. In a…

Casas to Villa: Don’t make me a scapegoat

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Administrator Floro Casas, Jr., expressed in an official statement his dismay over City Health Officer Daisy Villa’s claims during a Cebu City Council special session that he lied about the supposed…

Cebu City now has 2,500 beds in isolation centers

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City has now 2,500 beds in the different Barangay Isolation Centers (BIC) for the asymptomatic cases of the coronvarius disease 2019 (COVID-19). In a statement through the city’s Public Information Office (PIO),…

Barangay Ermita records first two COVID-19 cases

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Another densely populated barangay in Cebu City has recorded a case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Barangay Ermita, home to the city’s largest public market, has recorded its first two cases of…

NHCP releases new portrait of Datu Lapulapu

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/09/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — State experts on Thursday, May 7, 2020, released to the public a ‘photo-realistic’ painting of Datu Lapulapu. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) unveiled the new portrait of Datu Lapulapu from…

Villa bares ‘truth’ in emotion-packed Cebu City Council special session

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Doctor Daisy Villa, the Cebu City Health Officer, could not hide her emotions during the Cebu City Council special session on May 8, 2020, as she attempted to clarify some false information spreading…

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