The Cebu Bus Rapid Transit (CBRT) project was never intended as a solution to the traffic woes in Cebu City but was designed to improve the quality and level of commuting service, safety and environmental efficiency of the more than 70 percent of the city’s population that rely on public transportation.
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+ SEEMS like the current response is slightly behind the rate of transmission.
“This is alarming because we already have a backlog in the extraction of patients,” said Emergency Operations Center (EOC) deputy chief implementer and Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera.
Cebu City will add four ambulances to the five that have been scrambling in the new spike. Moving patients from their homes to the isolation centers has been slow and “alarming.”
This week, the schools in Barangays Pardo, City Central and Guadalupe will be reopened as barangay isolation centers (BIC). Last month, the schools in Barangays Zapatera, Mabolo and Labangon were also reopened to prevent home quarantine and isolate infected individuals. The EOC eyes more schools to widen preparation. It had coordinated with the Department of Education Cebu City Division, which will come up with a list of schools to be used as BICs.
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GATHERING AT DAWN: Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma (top photo) concelebrates the Misa de Gallo at the Archdiocesan Shrine of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Barangay Poblacion, Minglanilla, Cebu attended by close to 2,000 people on Wednesday, Dec.
16, 2020, the first day of the Misa de Gallo. In Cebu City, churchgoers (above) crowd the street outside the Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Parish in Barangay Pardo Wednesday, prompting Mayor Edgardo Labella to issue additional guidelines on the holding of the Misa de Gallo and Simbang Gabi in the city. (PHOTOS BY BENJIE TALISIC (TOP) AND DAVE TUMULAK (ABOVE))