SunStar New IATF directive sets swab on Day 7
COMING HOME. In 2020, when quarantine restrictions began to relax, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) locked down in Manila for two months arrived at the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA). Immediately upon arrival, they underwent a Covid test and sent to different quarantine facilities for several days until they were allowed to go home. This time, Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia wants to spare OFWs the burden of being quarantined, and she is standing pat on her rules. (SunStar File)
+ May 07, 2021 THE Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) has approved the recommendation of the Department of Health (DOH) to test travelers entering the country for coronavirus disease only on the seventh day of their arrival.
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Vaccine rollout in Cebu City to resume on Monday, May 3. (File photo)
+ May 01, 2021 THE Cebu City Government will resume its coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine rollout for members of Priority Codes A1 (health care workers) and A2 (senior citizens) on Monday, May 3, 2021.
The City was forced to suspend vaccination on April 23 after it ran out of vaccines.
On Saturday, May 1, it received more than 9,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine from China.
Vice Mayor Michael Rama, lead convener of Vaccine Advisory Board (VAB), said that first to be accommodated on Monday will be senior citizens on the waiting list and those who were supposed to be inoculated last April 23.
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+ February 19, 2021 THE assets of a big-time drug lord living in Brgy. Cubacub, Mandaue City, were frozen on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, after police led by Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Gen. Debold Sinas implemented a court-mandated freeze order.
Sinas, who was in Cebu Friday led police and officials of the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) in the implementation of the freeze order against the assets of Charlie Duhaylungsod, including a large house situated in an exclusive subdivision in Cubacub worth P14 million when he first bought it.
Based on a recent appraisal conducted by the AMLC, the house is now worth P20 million.