CEBU CITY — Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia has softened her stance after President Rodrigo Duterte publicly expressed his disgust over Cebu’s continued defiance of the policy set by the national pandemic task force.
Garcia announced on Tuesday afternoon that Cebu would follow the health protocols set by the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF) regarding travelers.
In a bid to meet the IATF halfway, Garcia said the swab-upon-arrival policy of the province stays for returning Filipinos from abroad including overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) but only to determine who among them are already positive of the new coronavirus.
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