Published July 12, 2021 8:33am Updated July 12, 2021 10:45am Central Visayas is now on the third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, Unang Balita reported on Monday, citing Dr. Eugenia Mercedes Caña, chief of the Department of Health Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (DOH RESU-7). "Yes. We are in a third wave now. We have been monitoring the cases for the last 4 weeks in Central Visayas, not just Cebu City and our epidemic curve shows an upward trend," Caña said in a message. Caña said the main reason for the upward trend is the more transmissible variants of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.