Gwen on WHO declaration ending COVID pandemic: It’s about time

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/08/2023

CEBU CITY, Philippines – “It’s about time.” This was Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia’s comment when the World Health Organization (WHO) no longer considered COVID-19 a global health emergency. On Friday, WHO declared the end of the COVID-19…

EOC reminds bar owners: Maintain health protocols

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/10/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations (EOC) is reminding bar owners that they must continue to maintain health protocols even if the restrictions in the city have eased up. Councilor Joel Garganera, the deputy…

30 new cases, 216 recoveries in Cebu on Sunday

Rosalie O. Abatayo 08/24/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu logged on Sunday 216 recoveries from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), six folds more than the additional infections recorded for the day. The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7), in its August…

Capitol gears up for reopening of tourism activities as Cebu province shifts to MGCQ

Rosalie O. Abatayo 07/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Canyoneering, whale shark and thresher shark watching, and other tourism activities in the countryside of Cebu province may soon resume as the province shifted into a modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) starting Wednesday,…

Delayed results allowed Badian’s COVID patient to go home for hours

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The delay in the release of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test result of a quarantined man in Badian town, southwestern Cebu, has enabled him to go home and unknowing that he might have…

Bantayan: 11 more close contacts test negative for COVID-19

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/17/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Eleven more close contacts of the first COVID-19 patient in Bantayan town have tested negative for the disease as of Sunday, May 17, 2020. The municipal government has reported this today, Sunday, May…

OPAV: 43% mass tests turnout, 200 to get PCR test

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least 200 persons, who participated in the massive rapid testing in the cities of Cebu, Mandaue, and Lapu-Lapu, will undergo the coronavirus disease test using real-time polymerase chain reaction (rt-PCR). These individuals…

13 more close contacts of Bantayan patient cleared

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/06/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least 20 of the 33 close contacts of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patient in Bantayan town, northern Cebu, tested negative for the virus, the municipal government announced Wednesday, May 6, 2020. The…

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