CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City acting Mayor Michael Rama has written to the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID or IATF) to allow the city to open cemeteries on October 29 to November 2, 2021. Rama said in a letter to Secretaries Francisco Duque III, Karo Alexel Nograles, and Roy Cimatu, that the current COVID-19 situation in the city had significantly improved. The acting mayor explained that the city had remained under General Community Quarantine since September 8, 2021, until the present and had also been classified as Alert Level 2 under the piloted Alert Level System.

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