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+ March 17, 2021 EXACTLY a year ago last Tuesday, we lost control of our freedom to travel. Life has not been the same ever since.
Cebu City Mayor Edgar Labella said at that time that he was ordering a quarantine, not a lockdown, and people were merely advised to stay at home. There were no confirmed cases in Cebu City then, just PUIs (patients under investigation) and PUMs (persons under monitoring). In the Central Visayas itself, only one case was reported, that of a Chinese tourist who eventually died.
“We have to be preemptive and precautionary, rather than reactive,” Labella said, explaining what looked then to be unnecessary restrictions.
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bobby nalzaro February 25, 2021 Gov. Gwen Garcia has been bashed on social media and criticized by her critics on her controversial memorandum last Feb. 3, 2021 addressed to all local chief executives and city and municipal health officers in the province on the conduct of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) on asymptomatic persons. In that memorandum, the governor advised local chief executives and heath officials that “only those showing symptoms of the coronavirus disease (Covid 19) shall be subjected to an RT-PCR test. Any request for an RT-PCR test by an asymptomatic person shall not be entertained nor accommodated.”
In fairness to the governor, her memorandum has basis. It was not a unilateral decision, but based on the guidelines released by the Department of Health (DOH) central office. Days ago, the governor issued an executive order that RT-PCR test is no longer required for tourists visiting the province. There are only th
Published February 24, 2021, 12:00 PM
CEBU CITY (PNA) – The Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (CBRT) System will be partially operational by the end of this year and fully operational in early 2023, the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) said on Tuesday.
Architectural Design of one of the stations of the Cebu City Bus Rapid Transit Project. (Photo from Cebu City BRT’s Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN)
“The DOTr (Department of Transpor0tation), through Secretary Arthur Tugade, maintains that even if we are struck by the Covid pandemic, they remain to target partial operation of the project by December 2021 and full operation by January 2023. The next big step for Cebu BRT is land acquisition and bidding,” OPAV Assistant Secretary Anthony Gerard Gonzales said in a statement.