SunStar
Editorial cartoon by Gilbert Manantan
+ January 22, 2021 IT S short of a miracle that the holding of dawn masses in the lead-up to Christmas Day in December or the physical novena masses for the Fiesta Señor 2021, before these were canceled by Augustinian friars earlier this month, did not contribute to the sharp rise in the number of coronavirus cases in Cebu City.
Unless someone is not telling the truth, or is manipulating it.
The fact remains, though, that active Covid cases increased from 93 on December 20, 2020 to 689 a month later.
Although the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) identified gatherings during the holiday season as one reason for this, Inter-Agency Task Force for the Visayas chief implementer Ret. Gen. Melquiades Feliciano, during an interview with SunStar Cebu on Wednesday, January 20, 2021, did not link church congregations to the ongoing development.