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SunStar Contributed photo February 13, 2021 THE Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) added more personnel and resources for its extraction efforts to meet the rising number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases. Harold Alcontin, City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) operations head and in-charge of extraction team, said personnel and ambulances from CDRRMO helped fast-track efforts of the EOC extraction team. CDRRMO head Ramil Ayuman added 20 personnel for the extraction team. Ten more barangay isolation centers with 762-bed capacity have also ...

SunStar No more public Novena masses starting Jan. 12 LAST CHANCE. Devotees attend one of the novena masses held at the Basilica Minore del Sto. Niño in Cebu City on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. At 5 p.m. Monday, the Basilica’s Augustinian friars announced that for the remaining five days of the novena masses of the Fiesta Señor, there would be no more face-to-face masses. To prevent a possible increase in Covid-19 cases, the masses will be purely virtual or streamed online beginning Tuesday, Jan. 12. / AMPER CAMPAñA + January 11, 2021 BEGINNING Tuesday...

January 10, 2021 TWO contingents that signed up for the Sinulog 2021 ritual showdown are asking for a refund. The Sinulog Foundation Inc. (SFI) and the steering committee of Sinulog 2021 recently announced the cancelation of all Sinulog cultural performances this month. Contingents may still be able to perform in April during the celebration of 500 years of Christianity in the country, but only if the coronavirus threat abates. San Nicolas Proper Barangay Captain Clifford Jude Niñal said he already spent more than P100,000 for the barangay’s contingent. Before starting prepara...

SunStar + January 07, 2021 FOR nearly a year now, Covid headlines, often sans sensational elements, seem consigned to passive reading. No small help from competing stories—from the year-ender rape-slay of a flight attendant to the US Capitol Hill siege, for instance. Covid news constantly faces the vulnerability of being edged out in the disruption game. In a top stories interface, Covid appears, well, “one-of-those.” But not to people whose attention to the pandemic had not waned. The health crisis still looms and portentously enough with the Department of Health (DOH) bul...

SunStar File photo January 07, 2021 THERE will be no street dancing on Jan. 17, 2021, the third Sunday of this month which highlights the cultural aspect of the annual Sinulog celebration to honor the Señor Sto. Niño or the Child Jesus. The ritual showdown, which was supposed to take place at the South Road Properties, will also be pre-recorded. The Sinulog Foundation Inc. (SFI) and the steering committee led by Cebu City Vice Mayor Michael Rama as overall convener made these announcements on Thursday, Jan. 7. During a meeting the day before, the group had decided to record all...