Cebu needs to vaccinate 80% of seniors if it wants to shift to Alert Level 1 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/01/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines—Local health officials here will be closely monitoring ongoing COVID-19 vaccination drives intended for senior citizens. An official from the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) believes that Cebu’s prolonged Alert Level 2 status…

Govt assures sufficient vax supply in Metro Cebu for minors

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/22/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Local health officials here assured the public that Metro Cebu still has ample supply of COVID-19 vaccines for minors despite some local governments halting their inoculation drives due to supply exhaustion.  Dr. Mary…

DOH-7 exec cautions premature dropping of face mask mandate

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/17/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – An official from the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) has cautioned about the consequences of prematurely dropping face mask mandates amid reports that the Philippines may do so by the end…

COVID-19 vaccination for street children possible, health officials say

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/16/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Administering COVID-19 vaccines to street children is possible, local health officials here said. The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) and Cebu City Health Office welcomed the recommendations of Cebu Medical Society…

Consolacion kicks off safari-themed ‘Resbakuna Kids’ drive in mall

Mary Rose Sagarino 02/14/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — A lion, a tiger, a bunny and a duck are among the costumes people were wearing at a corner of a mall where the “Resbakuna Kids” campaign was launched in Consolacion town in…

More Metro Cebu pharmacies to serve as venue for booster shots soon– OPAV

Doris C. Bongcac 02/05/2022

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – More Metro Cebu pharmacies have joined the government’s “Resbakuna sa Botika” program and will soon serve as additional venue for administering booster shots. And instead of implementing the program separately, this will now…

Cebu may start vaccinating kids aged 5-11 years by mid-Feb

Morexette Marie B. Erram 02/03/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Local health officials in Cebu are expecting to start administering COVID-19 vaccines to children aged 5 to 11 years old within this month. Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, chief pathologist of the Department of…

Medical kits for Cebu City residents in isolation pushed

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/22/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Council urged the Executive Department to provide medical kits to residents especially those who are in quarantine or isolation. Councilor Nestor Archival, the minority floor leader, filed a resolution that…

Unvaccinated persons make up 88% of COVID-19 deaths in Cebu – VVOC spox

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/21/2022

  CEBU CITY, Philippines — Most of the people who died of the COVID-19 in Cebu from January 1 to 19, 2022, are unvaccinated individuals. Doctor Mary Jean Loreche, spokesperson of the Visayas Vaccination Operation Center (VVOC)…

In Cebu City, 732 new cases in 1 day

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/20/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City, on January 19, 2022, broke its own record in the number of new cases registered in a day.  This after the city logged 732 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, according…

Lapu-Lapu gov’t to appeal Alert Level 3 ruling: Encoder encoded wrong data

Futch Anthony Inso 01/07/2022

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The Lapu-Lapu City government has made an appeal to the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) not to place the city under alert level 3. The city, along…

Cebu point of entry of two confirmed Omicron cases

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/06/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu has become a point of entry for two confirmed cases of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19.  Doctor Mary Jean Loreche, chief pathologist of the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7),…

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