BAGUIO CITY – The city logged its highest number of new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in a day of 25 on Thursday – the most since the outbreak began in March.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong said contact tracing teams are now on double-time to expedite contact identification, testing, isolation, quarantine and medical protocols.
As of 6 p.m., August 13, the city has a total of 214 confirmed cases,89 active,119 recoveries and six deaths.
The new patients included 19 females and six males. There was an eight-year-old girls, two male senior citizens and five medical frontliners.
Barangays that have been locked down has increase to 28 as of 7 a.m., Friday, August 14, to facilitate complete and efficient contact tracing, and to ensure the safety and security of persons, who may have come into contact with these new confirmed cases.
Magalong said the city will now enforce the “hammer and dance” concept where there will be times when quarantine protocols will have to be tightened, and when these have to be eased to tolerable limits.