Kevin Lagunda Reports

TWO days after logging a daily positivity rate (DPR) under five percent, Cebu City's DPR has risen by 3.46 percentage points since. The Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported a 7.10 percent positivity rate on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, showing an increasing pattern since the city logged 3.64 percent positivity rate last Sunday, February 20. The DPR on Monday, February 21, was 5.66 percent. However, the three-day positivity rate is still at a single-digit level. Before the DPR shoot to double digits in early January this year due to Omicron-driven surge, Cebu City had reported under five percent positivity rate from the first day of the year until January 4. The World Health Organization (WHO) said one of the coronavirus indicators that show the infections are under control is when the positivity rate is under five percent for two weeks. The positivity rate, or percent positive, is the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that come out positive. Tuesday's

THE positivity rate in Cebu City has been a curious case in the past four days: it goes down to single digits in one day, then it goes up to double digits the next day. Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported a 7.84 percent positivity rate on Thursday, February 17, 2022, a decline from the 10.64 percent positivity rate posted on Wednesday, February 16. The EOC reported a sharp decline of the positivity rate -- 6.55 percent positivity rate -- on Tuesday, February 15, after logging 10.35 percent positivity rate on Monday, February 14. The week started with a single-digit positivity rate of 8.58 percent on Sunday, February 13. The World Health Organization said having a positivity rate of less than five percent for the last two weeks is one of the indicators that the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infection is under control. Positivity rate is the percentage of people who test positive for the virus of those overall who have been tested. 'Declining pattern' Despite th

CEBU City’s positivity rate hit double digits again on Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 10.64 percent, a day after recording a 6.55 percent positivity rate Tuesday. The numbers provided by the City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on Thursday, February 17 show a seesaw in Cebu City’s daily positivity rate in the past three days. After the EOC reported a 8.58 percent positivity rate on Sunday, February 13, it climbed back to 10.35 percent on Monday, Feb. 14. Then, the positivity rate sharply fell to 6.55 percent on Tuesday, Feb 15. Cebu City logged its record-high 56.62 percent positivity rate last January 21. Tuesday’s positivity rate was near the five percent five percent threshold set by the World Health Organization. Having a positivity rate of less than five percent for the last two weeks is one of the indicators that coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infection is under control. Positivity rate is the percentage of people who test positive for the virus of those overall who have been

THE Cebu City Hall employees will hold another massive cleanup drive in the second week of March this year. This after they collected over 16 tons of garbage along the shoreline of Cebu City on Saturday, February 12, 2022. Vice Mayor Donaldo "Dondon" Hontiveros announced the initiative during the flag-raising ceremony last Monday, February 14, and he urged the employees to take the task to heart, the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO) reported Wednesday. “It’s our responsibility to clean Cebu City. In the next coastal clean up, adto ta (we should join), not for selfies. We are serious about it,” he said. Hontiveros said in the next cleanup drive will focus on the coastal barangays of Pasil and Suba where the City Hall employees collected the 16 tons of waste, the PIO reported. Charter Day bonus The vice mayor also announced that each of the City Hall regular and casual employees will receive P10,000 as Charter Day bonus. The city will celebrate its 85th Charter Day on

A COMPANY based in Oklahoma, United States has expressed interest in putting up a P75 billion power plant and tunnel where the lines of telecommunication companies and power lines could pass through in Cebu City. The company, Cosmo Energy LLC, said it would construct these facilities at its own expense, and the Cebu City Government would not have to shell out its funds, said lawyer Gerardo Carillo, chairman of the Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC). According to Carillo, Cosmo Energy wants to sign a joint venture agreement (JVA) with the Cebu City Government, and it said that it will charge only P9 per kilowatt hour, the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO) reported on its official website. “I’m very glad that Cosmo offered 200-megawatt power. If they will operate, that will lower the cost of electricity. Veco (Visayan Electric Company) now is imposing (on) us around P14 per kilowatt (hour),” said Carillo on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Panaghisgot,

THE Cebu III Electric Cooperative Inc. (Cebeco 3) has moved its deadline to fully restore power in its franchise area to Friday, February 18, 2022. This after the power distributor failed to meet its target of completing its power restoration on Monday, February 14. As of 3 p.m. Tuesday, February 15, Cebeco had restored electricity to 98.31 percent or 103,673 of 105,452 households. Cebeco 3 still has to reenergize 1,779 households—956 in Toledo City; 446, Pinamungajan; 183, Aloguinsan; 98, Balamban; 78, Asturias; and 18 households in 11 barangays in Cebu City. Cebeco 3's franchise comprises Toledo City (38 barangays) and municipalities of Pinamungajan (26), Aloguinsan (15), Balamban (28) and Asturias (27). It also serves outside its franchise area 11 mountain barangays in Cebu City that are near Balamban. The power restoration efforts in Cebeco 3's franchise area in western Cebu and in some mountain barangays in Cebu City have been ongoing for two months already since the after