Hard lockdown for 1 Baguio village, City logs record 52 single day Covid case

September 27, 2020 Headlines

BAGUIO CITY (20 Sept) – The city’s abattoir and the whole barangay has been ordered under hard lockdown starting today for nine days after 15 of the record 52 cases on Thursday are from said village.
Baguio mayor Benjamin Magalong has earlier placed three puroks of barangay Santo Nino Slaughterhouse under hard lockdown when 38 of the 77 cases in a three-day from Sept. 17-19 are from said barangay.
In signing memorandum No. 34 addressed to Baguio City Police Office director PCol. Rae Allen Co and barangay Sto. Nino Slaughterhouse chairman Camilo Tacbas, Magalong said “we have new clusters of cases in the above-mentioned barangay, necessitating a hard lockdown to contain and manage the transmission of Covid-19 within the area.”
Magalong added that said barangay has been placed “under hard lockdown, effective at 7:00 a.m. of 25 September 25 2020 and until 4 October 2020, subject to recommendation for granular lockdown form our contact tracing analysts and field medical officers.” The 52 cases Thursday broke the 42 Baguio logged on Sept. 20 with eight of the new cases coming from Lower Lourdes Subdivision.
Five of the new cases come from barangay Bakakeng, Central City Camp Central accounted for four, while three new cases are from Hillside. The Public Information Office – Baguio said that 26 of the new cases are determined through expanded testing, 22 from contact tracing and two were symptomatic and two for other reasons.
Aside from Santo Nino, 18 barangays have been partly placed under lockdown to effect contact tracing and disinfections. Records show that of the 256 active cases, 194 was logged on a seven-day period from Sept. 18 as Covid-19 cases here is close to breaking the 700 mark with 681 total confirmed cases.
The seven-day period also saw one death for 12 total deaths since late March. Baguio’s 52 cases are from the 167 swab tests made Thursday and a high 31.14 percent positive rate. The previous high was 27 percent on 42 positive cases of the 154 tests done. During the same seven-day period, the usual positive rate hovers around 12 percent. Pigeon Lobien/PNA