The 8.5-kilometer Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) project is nearing completion and is set to open to traffic early next year. It is expected to reduce traffic and boost trade in Cebu and the rest of the Visayas region.
The IATF is set to discuss including students and children in the vaccine priority list. According to CHED Chairman J. Prospera de Vera III, this would ensure that students can go back to face-to-face classes without fear for their safety against COVID-19.
If House Bill 9072 would be passed, it aims to improve preventive and curative medicine programs that advance Filipinos' health and well-being and prevent disease, disability, and death.
Cebu's lack of doctors could not cater to some provinces, thus an association between Cebu Normal University and Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (CNU-VSMMC) was made.
The Department of Education (DepEd) has proposed several dates on the opening of classes to be approved by President Duterte. This is in line with the Republic Act 11480 that allows the President, upon the recommendation of DepEd, to move the opening of classes in case of a state of calamity or emergency.
The ban on non-essential gov't events doesn't mean that all government activities are put on hold, there are some exemptions like for emergencies and some are done through the net.
The Regional Adverse Events Following Immunization Committee (RAEFIC), which is in charge of monitoring post-inoculation issues in Central Visayas, reported no serious adverse events, and stated that the deaths of three people had no "causal connection" with the vaccines they received.