DICT-7 launches online VaxCert app in Cebu City

Dyrecka Letigio 09/24/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Filipinos due to travel abroad, international seafarers, and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) can now get a vaccination certificate online. The Department of Information, Communication, and Technology in Central Visayas (DICT-7) launched the VaxCert…

Fully vaccinated individuals entering PH to undergo 7-day quarantine

Krissy Aguilar - Reporter / @KAguilarINQ 06/04/2021

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines has set a seven-day facility-based quarantine period for inbound travelers who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Malacañang said Friday. “All inbound fully vaccinated individuals shall be required to undergo a 7-day facility-based…

Cebu City Council urges authorities on top of 2019 nCoV situation to furnish them info, details

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/10/2020

  CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Cebu City Council has urged government agencies tasked to monitor and handle the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) situation to furnish them with data on the patients and travelers who arrived in…

150 Filipinos from China return via Cebu airport

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines–A total of 150 Filipinos who returned from China and its special administrative regions (SAR) arrived at Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) from February 2 to February 6, 2020,  data from airport authorities show. 88…

Pinoys returning from China via Cebu are placed under quarantine or self-quarantine

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Quarantine and self-quarantine measures are now underway as authorities recorded close to 100 Filipino residents returning from China to the Philippines via Cebu. Central Visayas’ Department of Health (DOH -7) and Bureau of…

DOH-7 chief: Possible quarantine of people who came in contact with Wuhan woman

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — People, who would be found to have encounters with the 38-year-old woman — the first case of Wuhan coronavirus in the country, might possibly be quarantined as a precautionary measure. Dr. Jaime Bernadas,…

DOH-7 sends more doctors, nurses to T2 of Mactan-Cebu International Airport

Futch Anthony Inso 01/22/2020

Cebu City, Philippines—The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has already augmented doctors and nurses to the Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ) station at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) Terminal 2 to help monitor passengers coming in…

Bureau of Quarantine, local health units are on top of coronavirus situation: DOH-7 assures

Rosalie Abatayo 01/21/2020

CEBU CITY , Philippines — The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) assured the public that the local health units and the Bureau of Quarantine are on top of the situation amid their confirmation that a…

Travelers monitored for mystery illness

Tina G. Santos - Philippine Daily Inquirer 01/06/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Sunday ordered the Bureau of Quarantine to intensify surveillance of travelers coming to the Philippines amid reports of the outbreak of a mystery disease in China. The order…

Australian Navy visits Cebu for naval exercise

Norman V. Mendoza 10/14/2016

TWO patrol boats of the Royal Australian Navy arrived at the Naval Forces Central (Navforcen) port in Barangay Lo-oc, Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday as part of Exercise Lumbas 2016. The two Armidale-class patrol boats, HMAS Glenelg (ACPB…

Measures in place to detect MERS-Cov

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Vanessa Claire Lucero 06/14/2015

Health authorities and airport officials  said they have  measures in place to monitor and prevent the entry of travelers suspected to have the Middle East Respiratory-Cov (MERS-Cov) in the country. At the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA), …

Probe sought on wastes in Sta. Fe waters

Melissa Q. Cabahug, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 06/11/2015

AN environment group called on the DENR and the Philippine Coast Guard to investigate passenger vessels that dump human waste into the waters of Sta. Fe town, Bantayan Island, northern Cebu. Environmental lawyer Antonio Oposa, who heads…

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