12 employees of Cebu City bank positive for COVID-19

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Employees of a bank in Cebu City were tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) prompting the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to temporarily close down the bank. Councilor Joel Garganera, head of…

EOC: Gov’t offices in Cebu City need health protocol officers

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center or EOC has asked the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force in Central Visayas (RIATF-7) to require all government agencies holding office in the city to assign a health…

Bacayan subdivision needs intervention for slight rise in COVID cases — Garganera

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A private subdivision in Barangay Bacayan, a mountain barangay in Cebu City, is currently the focus of attention of the Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) as a rise in coronavirus disease 2019…

Cebu City contact tracers to train counterparts in Iloilo, Bacolod

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Following the significant drop in cases of the coronavirus disease here,  Cebu City’s contact tracers will now be sharing their expertise to counterparts in Bacolod City and Iloilo, where cases of the infection…

Feliciano to leave Cebu for Iloilo and Bacolod; EOC remains

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/27/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Retired Major General Melquiades Feliciano, deputy chief implementor for the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) in the Visayas, will be leaving Cebu to help Bacolod City, Negros Occidental and Iloilo City with their fight…

4 Cebu City hinterland barangays remain COVID-free

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/24/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Of the 80 barangays comprising Cebu City, at least four of them remained free from any documented cases of the coronavirus disease. These are the villages of Sudlon I, Buot, Paril and Taptap,…

Travelers from NCR told to secure ‘letter of coordination’

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/24/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The anti-coronavirus task force in Cebu City will now require the submission of additional documents by city residents who are coming home from the National Capital Region (NCR), where cases of the coronavirus…

Work-to-house transmission: Officials urge cooperation from workers, firms

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/23/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Local officials in Cebu City are now urging both workers and firms to strictly comply with minimum health standards as health experts here started noticing a change in the outbreak’s dynamics. In an…

Cebu City’s EOC provides more tents, chairs to LSIs crowding port area to buy boat tickets

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/18/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Locally Stranded Individuals (LSIs) who plan to visit ticketing outlets that are located near pier 1 in Cebu City to purchase boat tickets will now have a comfortable place to stay. This after…

Garganera: EOC is working with DOH-7 to harmonize ‘conflicting’ COVID-19 data

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/07/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines –More than four months have passed since cases of the coronavirus disease were first reported in Cebu City. But to date, there is still conflicting data on the number of cases reported in the…

IATF to strengthen coordination with barangays in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/15/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Inter Agency Task Force (IATF) aims to strengthen its coordination with the Cebu City barangays for better implementation of the quarantine guidelines. The IATF met with the Association of Barangay Councils (ABC)…

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