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Cebu City to appeal getting placed under ECQ anew
Cebu will appeal President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to again place the city under an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to address the continued spread of COVID-19, Mayor Edgardo Labella has said.
"We will appeal to the Inter-Agency Task Force to reconsider Cebu City's quarantine status so that we can all regain our means of living," Labella said in Lei Alviz's report on "24 Oras."
Cebu City was placed under ECQ due to its increasing number of new cases
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The Cebu Medical Society, however, said measures less stringent than might make the population more vulnerable for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection.
"Relaxing the quarantine status does not make the virus disappear. In fact, it makes the general population most vulnerable to infection and propagation of the COVID-19," the society said in a statement.
"We gently recommend to our public officials and fellow Cebuanos not to downplay the veracity of this contagion," it added.
As of June 15, the Cebu City Health Department has reported 3,613 cases, making it the city with the most COVID-19 infections in the country, with 39 fatalities. -Joahna Lei Casilao/NB, GMA News