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[UPDATED] Four More Frontliners Test Positive to COVID-19 in Baguio City





UPDATED as of 3:39 PM:
Another frontliner, a 27-year old female nurse from Wangal La Trinidad, Benguet was diagnosed with COVID-19 along with the three confirmed cases earlier announced today.

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Three new cases have been added to the tally of COVID-19 cases in Baguio City today. All of which are frontliners. Mayor Benjamin Magalong said two nursing attendants both aged 34 years old, and a 61-year old female doctor residing at barangays BGH Compound, Camp 8, and Sto Niño, have tested positive through the Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) confirmatory test. This brings the total number of active cases in the city to fifteen.

According to the mayor, all appropriate courses of action and standard operating procedures are currently being executed. Residents are urged to take extra precaution as spike in cases in the city of Baguio are expected to continue as they formally start the expanded risk-based testing using the Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) confirmatory test kits on Monday, April 27, running 200 tests a day until May 15, testing not only those who are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms but also pools of probable cases who are asymptomatic.

According to City Health Officer Dr. Rowena Galpo, six of the eight patients diagnosed with COVID-19 yesterday were tested not because they had symptoms but because they fell in the categories fit for risk-based testing.

“The new cases included four health workers from the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center and they were tested not because they had symptoms but because they are health workers. The same way that the two Overseas Filipino Workers at Teachers’ Camp were also tested even if they are asymptomatic because of their history of travel,” Galpo said.

Source: PIO Baguio

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