Baguio City Sees No Total Shutdown From Tourists

July 29, 2021 JUST IN

BAGUIO CITY (July 29, 2021) – Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong said the city, though it has already reached its Covid19 cases threshold, does not opt to totally shutdown its doors from tourists.
Stricter border control remains to be the best answer (for us), the city mayor said, while citing that Covid19 transmissions in the city had been churning around 60 a day three weeks ago.
Magalong said ‘certain testing guidelines for tourists coming from GCQ and MGCQ areas were already put in place as an active defense of the city against surges’.

But he maintained that Baguio City will strictly bar “visitors from heightened GCQ and MECQ areas” in the country.
The country’s contact tracing czar maintained that the local government had been aware that “every time were re-open our economy (via tourism) when cases are relatively low, we expect a spoke in cases.” But when we reach a defined threshold, we start hammering by stricter border control and other measures that decreases mobility, Magalong explained, citing government’s “hammer and dance strategy” versus Covid19.
Artemio A. Dumlao