Published January 28, 2021, 10:19 AM
BAGUIO CITY – Mayors of Baguio City, La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba and Tublay (BLISTT) agreed to impose stricter border restrictions anew in an attempt to arrest the surge in the incidence of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the threat of transmission of UK variant in their localities.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong
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The Department of Health made particular mention on January 22 that one of the 17 UK variant cases was located in the City’s nearby town of La Trinidad.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong said the contact tracing team immediately started tracking the travel and contact history of the patient, eventually finding out that 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation contacts had recently travelled to Baguio City.
Published January 9, 2021, 12:42 PM
BAGUIO CITY – With the death toll in coronavirus disease (COVID-19) up by 40 percent in less than a month, Mayor Benjamin Magalong has tasked the City Health Services Office (CHSO) to immediately confer with private and public medical experts, as well as the Department of Health (DOH) -Cordillera to find ways to prevent more fatalities directly or indirectly caused by virus.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong
(JJ Landingin / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Magalong said that, during a recent meeting of the city’s Management Committee (MANCOM), the increased number of COVID-19-related deaths was noted.
“We cannot just leave it at that. We have to do something. Let’s set a roadmap on how to address the death incidence and let’s arrest it,” Magalong said.
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