LAST RESPECTS. Cebu City officials and residents pay their last respects to the late Mayor Edgardo Labella at the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes in Barangay Lahug. Michael Rama, the vice mayor who took oath as new city mayor by virtue of succession, said the remains of Labella will be transferred to the Cebu City Hall on Wednesday afternoon (Nov. 24, 2021) for public viewing until Friday. (Photo courtesy of Cebu City Hall PIO) CEBU CITY - The remains of the late Mayor Edgardo Labella will be at the Cebu City Hall from Wednesday until Friday for viewing by those who would like to pay their last respects. Mayor Michael Rama, who took his oath as "mayor by virtue of succession" on Saturday, said in a press briefing on Monday that he and city officials anticipate an influx of people from the lowland and hinterland villages here. The transfer of the remains from Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes in Barangay Lahug will be done on Wednesday afternoon. Those in charge of the preparations are in
The Cebu City Hall. (PNA file photo by John Rey Saavedra) CEBU CITY - Only fully vaccinated individuals will be allowed to enter movie houses that will soon be allowed to operate in line with the city government's intention to further open the economy amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Mayor Michael Rama, in his first press briefing as full-fledged local chief executive, said he intends to further open the economy in time for the Christmas activities in December and the Sinulog Festival in January next year. "All places of business and areas where people may go may fully open but only to people who have already been (fully) vaccinated," he said. Rama took oath as mayor by succession on Saturday following the death on Friday of Mayor Edgardo Labella at the Perpetual Succour Hospital due to "septic shock secondary to pneumonia". First councilor Donaldo "Dondon" Hontiveros also took his oath as vice mayor. Emergency Operations Center (
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