| GUN FROM SLAIN COP. A police officer from the PNP Crime Laboratory checks a handgun taken from the body of PO3 Wilverson Cabanag. Cabanag, a suspended cop, was gunned down in sitio Lomar, Barangay T. Padilla, Cebu City Tuesday night.
(SUN.STAR FOTO/ALLAN CUIZON)
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AFTER 20 days without any new cases, the Philippines was declared free of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) by the World Health Organization (WHO).
That settles the debate on declaring a state of calamity in Cebu, but should not be a reason for complacency, said Provincial Board (PB) tourism committee chairperson Josefina Asirit.
And although the WHO found the Sars isolation unit of Cebu City’s Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) adequate, the hospital’s overall preparedness to handle the disease will still be gauged by the WHO this week.
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