Cebu City To Appeal To IATF Against Placing LGU Back To ECQ, Says Mayor

Cebu City will make an appeal to IATF against placing the local government back to ECQ, according to the city mayor.

Cebu City was set to make an appeal to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management Of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-MEID) against placing the local government back to enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), according to the city mayor.

This, as Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella on Wednesday said in an interview on GMA Network’s Unang Hirit that he had to make an appeal and they’re going to file it within this day just because it was always their position that they had done enough.

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Mayor Edgardo Labella argued that the recent increase in the number of coronavirus cases in Cebu City was due to its “backlog” in yielding its test results, adding that the city government had tested around 25,000 people since March 2020, wherein 10,000 of them underwent PCR-based testing while the remaining 15,000 underwent rapid testing.

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Labella said that 1,874 out of 3,613 cases had already recovered as of June 15, adding that the city had around 51% recovery rate and 1.0 death rate. He also said that these numbers were “better” compared to the national level rate.

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