(File photo) MANILA - Cebu City's ordinance on the optional use of face masks may be a ground for graft under Executive Order (EO) 151 that sets the nationwide alert level system. Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Ano is still hoping that a "remedy" will be made by the Cebu provincial government, which he gave until the weekend to rectify its EO 16 issued by Governor Gwen Garcia on June 8. During a press conference at the "Back-to-Vax Champion" Covid-19 vaccination ramp-up event at a mall in Quezon City on Friday, Ano noted that Cebu's order also contradicts EOs 168 and 1218 and Republic Act (RA) 11332 or the Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases and Health Events of Public Health Concern Act. EO 1218 is a declaration of state of calamity; EO 168 adopts measures to strengthen the Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Program of the Department of Health (DOH) or its equivalent in other local health unit