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INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade (left), Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia (center) and Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Secretary Michael Dino (right) hold a press conference to update Cebuanos on the Bus Rapid Transit project which remains unimplemented till now. / AMPER CAMPAÑA
+ May 06, 2021 THE Department of Transportation (DOTr) is seeking an extension of its multibillion-peso World Bank loan for Cebu’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system as the loan is set to close about a month from now on June 30, 2021.
In a press conference in Cebu City on Thursday, May 6, DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade said he has met with the World Bank and submitted a proposal.
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File photo January 15, 2021 DESPITE the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Mandaue City, the City Government will not use some public schools in the city as quarantine facilities.
The city will also stick to its game plan in fighting Covid-19 and the B.1.1.7. Sars-CoV-2 variant (UK variant), which was already detected in the country.
Based on the Department of Health (DOH)-Central Visayas bulletin on January 14, 2021, Mandaue City has 95 active Covid-19 cases, an increase from 89 active cases last January 13.
Mayor Jonas Cortes’s executive secretary John Eddu Ibañez said there is still no need to reactivate the use of some public schools.