FUND FOR RECOVERY. President Rodrigo Duterte (left) interacts with Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia during a command conference at the Gen. Benito Ebuen Air Base in Lapu-Lapu City on Thursday night (Dec 23, 2021). Duterte announced that he is allocating PHP10 billion for the relief and reconstruction works in the aftermath of Typhoon Odette. (Photo courtesy of OPAV) CEBU CITY - President Rodrigo Duterte has pledged a PHP10-billion fund for the relief and reconstruction efforts of the provinces badly hit by Typhoon Odette. Each province will receive PHP100 million, to be divided by the component cities and municipalities. The fund came from the different government agencies. Duterte made the announcement Thursday night during a command conference with officials, including the military, at the Gen. Benito Ebuen Air Base in Lapu-Lapu City, as he visited Cebu for the second time since the onslaught of the typhoon on Thursday last week. The President visited Cebu on Sunday after the typhoon a
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(From Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas)
+ June 18, 2021 PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte lauded the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (Opav) for the creation of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Manual for Covid-19 Response at the city and municipal level.
In a message, he congratulated OPAV for publishing the manual that is “designed to help the local implementers of our COVID-19 response in the Visayas, (and) will truly standardize our procedures in combatting this disease.”
EOC was established in Cebu when the surge of cases occurred in 2020. In June 2020, Cebu was dubbed as the epicenter for Covid-19 since it had the greatest number of cases in the entire country at the time.
Published April 7, 2021, 9:26 PM
CEBU CITY – Local officials here cried foul over the supposed renaming of the P.3 variant of SARS-CoV-2 from “Philippine variant” to “Central Visayas Variant (CVV).”
NAMING NAMES. A screenshot of an infographic said to be released by the Philippine Genome Center to media bears a COVID-19 variant named as Central Visayas Variant, which was previously known as Philippine Variant. The screenshot was posted by DOH 7 spokesperson Dt. Mary Jean Loreche on the Visayas media viber group.
Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, chief pathologist and spokesperson of the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH 7), said they received reports that the “Philippine variant” was renamed to “Central Visayas variant” in publication materials from the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO).
Published April 5, 2021, 4:54 PM
CEBU CITY – Returning Overseas Filipinos (ROFs) and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) can get free swab testing at the international arrival area of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA).
Spearheaded by the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH Region 7), the project was officially launched last April 1 but the giving of free swab testing and RT-PCR testing to ROFs and returning residents at MCIA started last March 31.
“This move to test upon arrival and for free unburdens the OWWA (Overseas Workers Welfare Administration. It also (keeps them) from spending so much on their hotel stays,” said Loreche.
The DOH Region 7 project is in partnership with the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV) and “Project Balik Buhay.”