Top officials of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Cebu Provincial Government held a dialogue in a bid to come out with a ‘compromise’ regarding the optional wearing of face mask amid the Covid-19 pandemic. DILG Secretary Eduardo Año revealed this on Thursday,...
In this file photo taken on April 26, 2021, commuters wearing protective face masks walk along Pratunam pier in Bangkok, after the government imposed strict restrictions for not wearing a mask in public following the recent outbreak of Covid-19 coronavirus cases in Thailand. Thailand announced on...
GARCIA (FB) CEBU CITY – Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia junked the ultimatum from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to amend a recent ordinance that made the wearing of face masks in open areas optional. Garcia said the province will stand by Executive Order (EO) No. 16 that she...
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia took a dig on some government officials whom he said have been insisting on the strict implementation of the use of face mask but were themselves doing the opposite. In a GMA News report, Garcia presented the photos of Department of the Interior and Local Government...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) gave the Cebu Provincial Government until this weekend to correct its executive order which allows local residents the option not to wear face masks in public places. In a press briefing, DILG Sec. Eduardo Año also disclosed that he is...
Senator Sonny Angara said he hopes that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases would hold dialogues with local government units (LGUs) to discuss the mandatory wearing of face masks against Covid-19. In an interview with The Chiefs, Angara said that...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will be tapping government lawyers to stop the implementation of an executive order that lifts the mandatory use of face masks in the province of Cebu. DILG Sec. Eduardo Año said the Executive Order No. 16 issued by Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn...
Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia was recently trending because of a “controversial” Executive Order that she signed, making the wearing of face masks optional in open and well-ventilated spaces. She clarified that this is “not totally scrapping the wearing of face mask” but giving people “a...
Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año figured in a verbal tussle in connection with the implementation of the mandatory face mask rule in the province. Garcia earlier issued an executive order that required face masks to be...
Malacañang on Tuesday rejected a Cebu provincial ordinance that makes wearing of face masks amid Covid-19 only optional for its residents by asserting that President Duterte's order, which is based on the government's pandemic task force, shall prevail. "The Chief Executive's directive is clear:...
More than two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the mandatory use of face masks continues to be a topic of debates among experts in the Philippines. (REUTERS / Feline Lim/ MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Face masks have long been proven effective at reducing the transmission of SARS-Cov-2, the virus...
CEBU CITY – Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia seemed to have thrown a shade at the critics of her order that made the wearing of face masks in open spaces in Cebu optional. In a Facebook post Sunday, June 12, Independence Day, Garcia asserted the meaning of her Executive Order No. 16 which lifted the...
