Cebu City to distribute 1 million masks to barangays

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government will be providing 1 million masks to the barangays to be distributed to frontliners and even residents. Mayor Edgardo Labella said the city received two separate donations from private…

CCHD won’t include sitios in reporting COVID cases

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/18/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Health Department (CCHD) will not be reporting the specific sitios of new cases in the city’s barangays to avoid confusion. Many netizens have been asking for details from the CCHD’s…

Lapu-Lapu reports 45 families under lockdown

Immae Lachica 06/15/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— In Lapu-Lapu City there are 45 families who are in lockdown. This was reported by Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) head, Nagiel Bañacia, during the Zoom meeting Monday morning, June 15, 2020,…

Gealon to residents of locked down areas: Be patient

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City spokesperson, Lawyer Rey Gealon, urged the residents of locked down areas in the city to be patient and remain compliant to the quarantine guidelines. He said in a press conference on…

Cebu City to barangays: Submit liquidation of financial aid

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government is asking the barangays to submit the liquidation of the financial aid the city has provided to them to help the residents during the pandemic. In a press conference…

Lapu’s COVID-19 ‘sweeper rapid testing’ starts on May 16

Immae Lachica 05/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— The Lapu-Lapu City government will start today, May 16, 2020, a “sweeper rapid testing” to make sure that even residents of sitios that did not record cases of the infection will be tested for…

Labella willing to tighten Cebu City’s borders if more barangays get infected

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella said he is willing to tighten the borders of Cebu City should more barangays (villages) become infected with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The mayor said in a…

Cebu City Health: We may not reach target of mass rapid testing

Delta Dyrecka Letigio, Gerard Vincent Francisco 05/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Health Officer Daisy Villa said the city might not be able to gather the target number of test samples from the mass rapid testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) conducted…

27 out of 80 barangays in Cebu City have COVID-19 cases

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 05/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Cebu City keeps rising daily as new cases are found out and recorded every single day. The city has now 760 cases of the…

Talisay City households to get 1 sack of rice next month

Doris C. Bongcac 04/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – True to his words, Talisay City Mayor Gerald Anthony Gullas said that the distribution of one sack of rice to each of the households in his city will already be done next month.…

More families quarantined and more areas locked down as Lapu-Lapu City registers five new COVID-19 positive cases 

Norman V. Mendoza 04/22/2020

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Junard “Ahong” Chan ordered the lockdown of some areas in his city and the quarantine of affected families as the city registered five new COVID-19 positive cases on Wednesday, April…

DILG tells barangays to post list of SAP beneficiaries

Rosalie Abatayo 04/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Amid the questions in the identification of beneficiaries for the national government’s social amelioration program (SAP), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has directed barangay chiefs to publicize their list of…

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