BAGUIO CITY --Mayor Benjie Magalong has ordered the lockdown of four barangays in the city after a resident of Barangay Dagsian was found positive of the Coronavirus disease on Friday.
–Mayor Benjie Magalong has ordered the lockdown of four barangays in the city after a resident of Barangay Dagsian was found positive of the Coronavirus disease on Friday.“I am ordering a lock down of Upper and Lower Dagsian, Hillside and Scout Barrio in view of this new infection. Only essential travels will be allowed,” Magalong said.The patient, a 46-year old female streetsweeper of Scout Barrio who lives in Dagsian barangay, was the city’s 15th positive case.
Aggressive contact tracing is now being done to round up the patient’s contacts which include some police personnel who according to Baguio City Police Director Allen Co, are now on isolation. He also ordered the immediate disinfection of the patient’s residence, police station and other areas she visited.As of today, a total of 154 suspected cases have undergone rapid tests. Five of them had positive results but of these five, four had negative results at the polymerase chain reaction confirmatory tests.
With the new case, the city now has a total of 15 confirmed patients with nine recoveries and one fatality.
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