SunStar No more Covid screening at the port in Cebu City
CEBU’S SEAPORT. This staging area at the back of Malacañang sa Sugbo at Cebu City’s Pier 1 used to be the site of passengers queuing up upon arrival at the port to be screened. However, for about a week now, the Covid-19 screenings which were part of Cebu City’s quarantine measures, have stopped for still unknown reasons.
+ February 13, 2021 THE Cebu Port Authority (CPA) has officially terminated its shuttle services for all inbound passengers from the sea vessel to the port staging area at the back of Malacañang sa Sugbo on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021.
SunStar
CEBU Explainer on Covid according to Gwen: Seven takeaways from Cebu guv on profiteering and why the cases are rising
SunStar File February 11, 2021 THE Cebu Capitol approach to the current health crisis is being compared by some critics to the Roman deity Janus with its alternation of moods.
Last year, in the early weeks of the pandemic, Governor Gwen Garcia was the zealous enforcer of quarantine laws, tangling with violators in addresses or interviews live-streamed from Capitol. She stoutly defended her executive orders that aimed to curb actual and potential spreaders who criticized draconian measures.
Shift in focus
For the last few months though, as her world knowledge of the coronavirus grew and dread of Covid-19 waned, she has shifted her focus from sending the virus to its knees by lockdown to helping get the economy back on its feet and recover from the pandemic by loosening some restrictions. Her new mantra, savin
SunStar February 06, 2021 If it’s any consolation, in the US, the country which leads the global tally of coronavirus cases at 26.6 million and deaths at 451,000, as of Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, “the demographics of who dies from the disease has not changed” since it was first detected there in January last year.
According to Dr. Thomas Holland of Duke University, the hardest hit sectors continue to be the elderly, accounting for eight out of 10 deaths based on figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and those with existing health conditions like cancer, kidney disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, among others.
SunStar
CEBU Bzzzzz: Rama publicly asks mayor, Lend me your ears. But City Council aborts move to have vice mayor named Covid czar.
SunStar File
[1]
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.
[2]
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
SunStar
File photo February 04, 2021 THE Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) plans to reduce the number of days required for asymptomatic Covid-19 patients inside quarantine facilities.
From the 14-day mandatory stay in isolation centers, the EOC wants to limit the stay to only 10 days, provided the patient continues to have no symptoms of Covid-19 three days prior to his 10th day of confinement.
Cebu City Councilor Joel Garganera, EOC deputy chief implementer, said this is seriously being studied by the EOC as it would greatly help in the turnaround of patients in the city’s isolation centers.
Garganera said the patients can continue to serve the remaining four days of quarantine at home.