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ROQUE S MANIGAS KAYONG LAHAT. Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said that as message to critics of President Rodrigo Duterte, boasting of the administration s accomplishments in infrastructure and beating Covid-19, Friday, February 5. The Tagalog word manigas literally means harden or toughen but they say it has a colloquial meaning that some people would rather not say in public.
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GUV GWEN S GOING AFTER EOC PERSONNEL, the six of them who managed a booth at the Mactan airport and allegedly misrepresented themselves as Capitol employees. The governor may address the request, to confront the six workers of Cebu City s Emergency Operations Center, to their chief or supervisor. The subordinates can t decide on their own. Even if it were a prosecutor summon or a court subpoena, the employees st
February 03, 2021
THE SITUATION. Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia in a span of four days publicized two complaints involving the campaign against Covid-19:
[1] Last January 29, the governor corrected Octa Research Group s assessment of the health crisis in Cebu, which tagged the island in its January 28 report an area of serious concern, predicting that unless the trend is contained, the number of positive cases would hit 400 this week and next week. She disputed Octa figures, showing the figures minus the numbers from Cebu City and two other cities to show that the province still had low positivity rate and adequate preparedness to cope with any increase.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 2) The Cebu City government will reimpose a liquor ban amid the rising number of coronavirus infections, its mayor said on Tuesday.
In a Facebook post, Mayor Edgar Labella said the spike in COVID-19 cases has forced the city government to make the “difficult decision.”
“The City Government of Cebu sees the need to reimpose a total liquor ban as a measure to prevent non-essential gatherings in public places and to mitigate the spread of COVID,” read Executive Order No. 117, a copy of which was shared by Labella on social media.
Cebu City reimposes liquor ban over spike in COVID-19 cases.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 29) Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia on Friday said the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the province is not a cause of concern for her.
In a briefing, Garcia said this is a concern for researchers and not hers, and what she wants to solve is the effect of the global health crisis to the local economy. What is cause for concern is that thousands upon thousands upon thousands have lost their businesses, have lost their jobs, have lost their livelihood, Garcia said, while also emphasizing that these will also lead to higher hunger and criminality.