CDNTopStories: Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella remains hopeful that the city’s enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) will be downgraded after Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Read more: CDNDigital
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella remains hopeful that the city’s“I hope that it would be downgraded because if you look at the statistics, Cebu City still has the highest number of recovery… so this is something that should be seriously considered,” Labella told reporters in a press interview on Tuesday, July 14, 2020.
The national government’s anti-coronavirus task force is set to announce the new quarantine status of all areas in the country on Wednesday. When asked if he received any feedback from the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management on Emerging Infectious Disease on what are the possible quarantine status to be imposed on Cebu City, Labella declined to respond.Cebu City was the only place in the country that was reverted back to ECQ since June 15. Experts from the IATF cited a high case doubling rate of the coronavirus disease 2019 , and hospitals reaching critical levels in their utilization rates.
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