Cebu City gov’t directs businesses to name a health officer

Delta Derycka C. Letigio 08/01/2020

CEBU CITY Philippines — Businesses in Cebu City will now be required to hire or appoint a Health Infection and Prevention Control Officer (HIPCO) as a pre-requisite for the resumption of their operations. The HIPCO’s main task…

Use of Cebu City’s Q passes still a must under GCQ

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Individuals who leave their homes to buy essentials will still be required to use their quarantine passes even if Cebu City is now under a more relaxed quarantine status. Those who fail to…

Cebu City allows entry of passenger ships under GCQ

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/01/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City will now allow passenger vessels to dock at its port area provided that its passengers and crew members follow health and safety protocols implemented in areas under general community quarantine (GCQ).…

Labella: We cannot afford to go back to MECQ

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella appealed to his constituents to follow the health protocols set under the general community quarantine (GCQ). In a phone interview with reporters, Labella said the city had suffered…

Augmented police officers to stay in Cebu City

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/31/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines–Regardless of the new quarantine status, the additional police officers fielded in Cebu City will stay.  Police Brigadier General Albert Ignatius Ferro, director of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), said he asked…

Labella: Cebu City is ready for GCQ; we are hopeful

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella is hopeful that the city will finally be downgraded to a general community quarantine (GCQ) after a month and a half of strict lockdown from June 15 to…

PRO-7: Stricter checkpoints for Duterte’s SONA on Monday

Alven Marie A. Timtim 07/25/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Policemen of the Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) are preparing for the fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Rodrigo Duterte, which will be held on Monday, July 27,…

Cimatu: Cebu City may be placed under GCQ starting August 1

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 07/22/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines –Cebuanos have something to look forward to. Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, the overseer of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) in Cebu, said that there is now a…

Labella hopeful of downgrade in quarantine status

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/14/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella remains hopeful that the city’s enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) will be downgraded after Wednesday, July 15, 2020. “I hope that it would be downgraded because if you look…

Ferro to recommend gradual downgrade of Cebu City ECQ

Alven Marie A. Timtim 07/11/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — A gradual downgrade from the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) would be ideal for Cebu City. This is the what Police Brigadier General Albert Ignatius Ferro, Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) director,…

Rama not keen on GCQ for Cebu City after July 15

Morexette Marie B. Erram 07/11/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Vice Mayor Michael Rama is not keen on having Cebu City be downgraded from its enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) status after July 15, 2020. In a virtual press conference on Saturday,…

Border controls remain as Cebu province’s MGCQ takes effect on July 10

Rosalie O. Abatayo 07/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The more “relaxed” protocols under the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) status in Cebu province will already take effect at midnight on Friday, July 10, 2020. Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has signed on Thursday,…

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