March 26, 2020
Amid of the health crisis related to COVID 19, SM employees are grateful after the company assured their regular compensation as well as an extension of Emergency Financial Assistance to its front liners, security guards, janitorial staff during the period of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) period from March 16 to April 14, 2020. All employees […]
March 26, 2020
BAGUIO CITY (March 26, 2022) — Mayor Benjamin Magalong on Wednesday afternoon placed Pinget barangay here on “lockdown” after barangay officials failed to correct their haphazard implementation of the Enhanced Community Quarantine measures. “We found out that some residents continue to loiter around and do not adhere to the prescribed physical distancing,” the mayor said. “I thought […]
March 23, 2020
BAGUIO CITY (March 23, 2020) — Private-run Starwood Hotel has offered its facilities for Baguio City’s medical front liners in the battle against COVID-19. Baguio City administrator Bonifacio Dela Peña said the owner of the hotel along Kisad Road allowed the use of his hotel unoccupied rooms for free to frontliner medical staff of the state-run […]
March 23, 2020
BAGUIO CITY (March 23, 2020) — Public health officials here confirmed on Monday that Baguio City is Covid19-free no more. Dr. Amelita Macli-ing Pangilinan, director of the Department of Health-Cordillera said the 61-year-old female who came from Italy on March 2 began showing coughing, colds and sore throat five days later. She went for consultation on March […]
March 16, 2020
A coronavirus disease (COVID-19)- positive patient visited Baguio City last March 9-11 while she was already manifesting symptoms before coming to the Summer Capital after her travel to Hiroshima, Japan. Mayor Benjamin Magalong said there were still no confirmed cases in the city contrary to reports that it has already registered two confirmed cases. He […]
March 11, 2020
BAGUIO CITY (March 11, 2020) – More and more tourist enclaves in the highland Cordillera region suspended tourism activities in heightened efforts to parry of possibly spread of the Corona Virus Disease 2019 or CoViD-19. Hours after Bontoc, Mt. Province’s capital, temporarily shut down its doors to tourists, the town’s mayor of Barlig also issued an […]
March 11, 2020
Lungsod ng Baguio – Inanunsyo ni Mayor Benjamin Magalong na hindi idedeklara ng lungsod ang isang lockdown sa kabila ng pagkansela ng Panagbenga Festival at ang pagsuspinde sa iba pang aktibidad sa kabila ng ng pagdagsa ng mga bisita dahil sa sakit na coronavirus 2019 (Covid-19). Lahat ng paparating na mga kaganapan sa Panagbenga tulad […]
March 11, 2020
BAGUIO CITY (March 9, 2020) — Baguio Flower Festival’s major crowd-drawing events were cancelled Monday afternoon after a closed-door meeting of the inter-agency task force on the Corona Virus Disease 2019 or CoVid 19 with Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong. The inter-agency task force is composed of the officials of the Baguio City Government headed by […]
March 10, 2020
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The City Government of San Fernando confirms the first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) that kills 30 pigs from a local pig farm in Barangay Cadaclan this city Sunday (March 8, 2020). “We immediately manage a precautionary measure to control the spread of ASF in the city,” said […]
February 17, 2020
BAGUIO CITY (February 17, 2020) — A hundred cyclists will race their way up Marcos Highway on March 2 for the Baguio leg of Ronda Pilipinas. A special lane will be designated for the participants of the local cycling competition according to Baguio City Administrator Bonifacio Dela Peña. The cyclists will come from Nueva Ecija […]