EOC Czar: Cebu City not ready for ‘new normal’

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Cebu City has been brought down to manageable levels. But for the czar of the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC), the city is not yet qualified…

Entire Cebu remains under MGCQ until Nov. 30

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — All areas in Cebu island will remain under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) for the entire month of November. This after the Malacañang, in a memorandum dated and issued on October 30, 2020,…

Central Visayas logs 23 new cases on Oct. 16

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/17/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Central Visayas recorded another low in the number of newly confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on October 16, the latest data show. The Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7)…

EOC wants certain restrictions to remain as IATF eases regulations for MGCQ areas

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is urging the Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella to maintain certain restrictions under the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) to prevent another rise of the coronavirus…

Labella says no to cockfighting for Cebu City MGCQ, border checkpoints will stay

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/16/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) announced today, October 16, 2020, the further easing of quarantine restrictions under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). In the new IATF guidelines, those aged 15 years old to…

IATF allows cockfighting activities in MGCQ areas

Krissy Aguilar - Reporter / @KAguilarINQ 10/16/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Cockfighting activities are now allowed to resume in areas under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), Malacañang said Friday. But presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging…

Labella okay with extending MGCQ until December

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella supports the recommendation of extending the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) in the city until December 2020. The MGCQ extension was the recommendation of the Department of Health…

DOH-7 recommends MGCQ for Cebu City until mid-December

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/12/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Recent statistics has shown that the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Cebu City may have massively improved in the past few weeks but health officials here are still reluctant to…

No new COVID deaths in Cebu City in one week

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/11/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – For the first time since June, Cebu City did not log any new deaths related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) this week. Data from the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH…

Minglanilla active cases down to 6

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/10/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Local officials in Minglanilla in southern Cebu continue to remind residents not to let their guards down even if the number of active coronavirus disease cases in their town has further decreased to…

Town officials report: Argao is now COVID-free

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The town of Argao in southeastern Cebu is now free of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), local officials announced. The local government unit (LGU) of Argao, in an advisory posted on its official…

Resch calls for immediate return of PUJs to city streets

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines –With nearly two months under the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ), public transportation remains scarce in Cebu City. Councilor Jessica Resch, who is also the city’s Sangguniang Kabataan Federation (SKF) president, is asking Mayor…

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