1.5k taxi drivers in Cebu City to undergo pooled testing

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 02/11/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Taxi drivers plying the Cebu City streets will be subjected to pooled testing for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Mayor Edgardo Labella announced this in a press conference on Thursday, February 11, 2021,…

316 PDLs undergo pooled testing in Cebu City

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 11/04/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and the Department of Health in Central Visayas (DOH-7) conducted COVID-19 pooled testing for detainees at all police stations in the city Wednesday, November 4, 2020.…

Carbon pooled testing a success – DOH-7

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/13/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Of the over 2,000 vendors in Carbon Public Market who participated in the pooled testing initiative, only 33 of them tested positive for the new coronavirus. The Department of Health in Central Visayas…

More Carbon vendors to undergo pooled swab testing

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/05/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — More vendors in Cebu City’s largest wet market will undergo the pooled swab testing initiative, the regional health office here announced. Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, spokesperson of the Department of Health in Central…

EOC orders zoning of Carbon Market stalls to reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — In the event that a vendor would test positive for the coronavirus disease, Cebu City’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) will no longer have to close the entire Carbon Public Market complex to reduce…

Successful pooled testing in Carbon Market means extension of program to other sectors – Garganera

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/03/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The efficiency and effectiveness of the pooled testing based on its pilot implementation among Carbon Market vendors starting on September 30, 2020, may mean an extension of the program to other sectors. Councilor…

Day 1 result of pooled testing: Only 1 out of 294 vendors is COVID-positive

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The pilot implementation of the pooled testing method for more efficient surveillance and detection of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) yielded surprisingly low positiveresults. On the first day of the testing of the…

Cebu City logs only 4 new COVID cases on Sept. 29

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/30/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City logged another record low in the number of active cases of the coronavirus disease that were reported on Tuesday, September 29. Data coming from the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) show…

Cebu City gov’t eyes random COVID-19 testing in establishments

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 08/21/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu City government plans to conduct random testing in the workplaces amid reports that the community transmission has shifted to the establishments. Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella said in a phone interview…

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