February 02, 2021 IN THE last four days of January 2021, Cebu City registered more than 100 new Covid-19 cases on each day, bringing the city’s active cases at the end of the first month of the year to 1,428.
Based on the data provided by the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), 103 new cases were recorded on Jan. 28; 108, Jan. 29; 118, Jan. 30; and 129, Jan. 31.
Local authorities attributed the increase in cases mainly to the private gatherings during the holidays.
Eleven months after recording its first case, Cebu City reached a total of 12,647 cases on Feb. 1, according to the Department of Health (DOH) 7 bulletin.
On Monday, the city’s new cases dropped to 77, breaking the four-day streak of over 100 new cases, bringing active cases to 1,504.
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CEBU. Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia. (SunStar File)
+ January 29, 2021 GOVERNOR Gwendolyn Garcia shrugged off the serious concern claim made by an independent research group on the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in Cebu, saying she is more concerned about the economy.
In a press conference at the Chikiting Ligtas launching in Consolacion town on Friday, January 29, 2021, Garcia wondered why Octa Research Group singled out Cebu without considering the population of the island of 5.2 million, including Cebu Province and the tri-cities.
On Wednesday, January 27, Cebu Province reported 499 active cases, in which 189 patients are asymptomatic, 283 with mild symptoms, 23 cases with moderate symptoms, and four with severe symptoms.
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+ January 30, 2021 CEBU Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has shrugged off the serious concern aired by an independent research group on the trend of increasing Covid-19 cases in the province.
In a press conference on Jan. 29, 2021, Garcia said she was more concerned about Cebu’s economy.
“I wonder why Dr. Leachon does not look at other cities that have more than 499 active cases and their population is not even one-third of the province (of Cebu),” Garcia said referring to Dr. Tony Leachon, former special advisor to the National Task Force on the Covid-19.
In its Jan. 28 report, Octa Research Group said Cebu, including Cebu City, has become an area of “serious concern” with its rising Covid-19 cases.
The OCTA Research Team said Friday that the rate of increase in the number of new COVID-19 cases in the National Capital Region is already slowing down.
The authorities have ruled out introducing more stringent lockdown measures and travel bans, with government officials declaring that they “want to balance health with the economy.”