Sogod town under MECQ

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/30/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – There are now 12 localities in Cebu province placed under a stricter Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ). Sogod town in northern Cebu decided to revert to MECQ in an effort to stem its…

11 localities in Cebu province back to MECQ

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/10/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines – At least 11 localities in Cebu province were reverted to Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) to stem the increasing cases of COVID-19. Several mayors here announced on social media that starting Wednesday, August…

Mayor Cortes to IATF: Let Mandaue remain under MGCQ

Mary Rose Sagarino 07/29/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City government has sent an appeal on Wednesday, July 28, 2021, to the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (RIATF-MEID or RIATF) for the city to…

Mandaue to ask RIATF: Decide on tricities’ unified curfew proposal

Mary Rose Sagarino 03/18/2021

MANDAUE CITY, Philippines — The Mandaue City government will follow what the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) on COVID-19 will decide on the recommendation of a unified curfew for the tri-cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu and Cebu. Lawyer…

RIATF-7 rules: No physical activities, no actual or prerecorded performances

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 01/08/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Regional Interagency Task Force in Central Visayas has recommended that there should be no physical activities or actual performances for the Sinulog 2021. In their Resolution No. 97 Series of 2020, the RIATF-7…

Rama: We will not cancel Sinulog 2021

Morexette Marie B. Erram 01/04/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Organizers of this year’s Sinulog Festival will not back down amid recommendations from police officials to cancel the event entirely.  Cebu City Vice Mayor Michael Rama on Monday, January 4, said they had…

Talisay’s downgrade to GCQ awaits RIATF concurrence

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/18/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The lifting of Talisay City’s modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) status and de-escalation to general community quarantine (GCQ) now only awaits the concurrence of the Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) before it takes…

No brgy, sitio lockdown without guv, RIATF nod

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/17/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Capitol has ordered component local government units (LGUs) to lift localized lockdowns in purok, sitio, or barangay levels that did not have an endorsement of the governor and the approval of the…

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