CEBU CITY, Philippines — After over a month of "lockdown," halt in several businesses, and at least 49 coronavirus cases recorded, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia says "it's
CEBU CITY, Philippines — After over a month of “lockdown,” halt in several businesses, and at least 49 coronavirus cases recorded, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia says “it’s about time” for the province of over three million people to “revive” its economy., said the transition to general community quarantine, at least for the Province of Cebu, was now getting near as the province had managed to keep the number of COVID-19 cases in the towns at a “minimum.
Of the provinces 49 cases, only 16 are actually from the towns and cities because 33 of them are inmates of the Capitol-run Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center located in Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City. “I am really more for the transition already for the province lang ha. I am for the province to transition to GCQ. It’s about time that we resuscitate our struggling economy, and we now take steps to improve the lives of the people who are now suffering because of this,” Garcia said.
The governor earlier said that once the province transitions to GCQ, it will be more focused on the countryside developments as part of the province’s responses to the learning opportunities from the health crisis that also bore economic regression.However, Garcia said that strict border controls between Cebu province and Cebu City, which now had over 1,600 cases of COVID-19, would still remain under the GCQ.
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