The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) sees the need to harmonize the policy of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) with that of the local government units (LGIs) amid the controversy brought by the decision of Cebu City...
CEBU CITY – The optional wearing of face masks in open areas here is only temporary, according to an Executive Order (EO) issued by Mayor Michael Rama on Monday, Sept. 5. Rama’s EO No. 6 contained supplementary provisions to EO No. 5 entitled “Declaring the use of face mask within the...
CEBU CITY – Barangay officials here have cited the Land Transportation Office-Central Visayas (LTO 7) for offering free Theoretical Driving Course seminars. LTO 7 Director Victor Caindec. (FB) Barangay Sudlon 1 Captain Dante Tabucal said the seminar spearheaded by LTO 7 Director Victor Caindec is...
CEBU CITY – Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia defended Mayor Michael Rama here from Department of Health (DOH) officer-in-charge Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire who lamented Cebu City’s recent policy that made the wearing of face masks in open spaces non-obligatory. Rama recently issued an...
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama has denied shelving the implementation of the non-mandatory wearing of face masks in open spaces after supposedly acceding to the request of Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. DILG “Yesterday (Sept. 1), Mayor...
(Maskmedicare Shop/ Unsplash) Health experts said it is not yet the right time to lift the mandatory wearing of face masks in the country. “It's too early to lift mask mandate even in outdoor,” said Dr. Rontgene Solante, head of adult infectious diseases at San Lazaro Hospital in Manila, in a...
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benhur Abalos said he's willing to make Cebu City a pilot area for the optional use of face masks. (Maskmedicare Shop/ Unsplash) This was confirmed to congressmen by Abalos during the budget deliberations of the agency before the House...
CEBU CITY – Mayor Michael Rama here is standing by his executive order (EO) that made the wearing of face masks in this city “non-obligatory.” RAMA Contrary to the pronouncement of Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr., Rama said he is not deferring the...
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin ‘Benhur’ Abalos Jr. has asked Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama to defer the implementation of the decision that no longer mandates the wearing of face masks in open spaces. Abalos issued the statement after learning that Rama...
DOH Officer-in-Charge Maria Rosario Vergeire speaks to members of the media during the first face-to-face press briefing after two years at the DOH Central Office in Manila on Wednesday, July 20. (MB Photo: Noel Pabalate) The Department of Health (DOH) urged all local government units (LGUs) to...
Malacañang said it is waiting for the Department of Health's (DOH) comment on whether or not to keep the policy requiring the public to wear face masks amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Passers-by walk in front of a tarpaulin with images of frontliners wearing face mask at Eastwood City in Pasig on...
CEBU CITY – The wearing of face masks here is no longer mandatory. Mayor Michael Rama on Wednesday, Aug. 31, signed an Executive Order (EO) “declaring the use of face mask within the territorial jurisdiction of the City of Cebu as non-obligatory but a measure of individual self-preservation and...
