BAGUIO CITY – This city posted its 20th Covid-19
fatality, even as 36 new cases were recorded on Oct. 18.
Baguio also posted a total of 1,639 confirmed cases, 546 active, 1,073 recoveries.
The latest fatality was a 43-year-old male, who died Oct. 17, due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, severe pneumonia, and Covid-19.
He was admitted at a hospital on Oct. 10 after suffering from fever and cough for four days.
Of the new patients, 24 were contact-traced, seven detected through expanded testing, three tested for other reasons while two were symptomatic.
Of the new cases, eight were minors, including a two-day-old boy.
This, as a 106-year-old resident of Barangay Irisan recovered from Covid-19.
City health services officer Rowena Galpo said the patient, who was confined for 11 days at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, was discharged Tuesday.
Galpo said the patient, who developed mild symptoms, tested positive for the virus on Oct. 9.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong said the Covid-19 fight in the city has shifted to the households as seen in the current statistics.
This meant that city’s strategies should now target families and neighborhoods to engender a behavioral change in such a way that minimum health standards against the disease becomes part of their way of life even at home.
Magalong asked barangay officials to take the lead in implementing the new programs in their areas of jurisdiction which included information education communication campaign and dialogues in barangay, which have the potential to become flashpoints or hotspots, and giving incentives to barangays that are complying with health measures.
Earlier, a 77-year-old male died on October 16 after three days of confinement, while an 80-year-old male, who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital on Oct. 16. Both had health problems.
Baguio also posted a total of 1,639 confirmed cases, 546 active, 1,073 recoveries.
The latest fatality was a 43-year-old male, who died Oct. 17, due to acute respiratory distress syndrome, severe pneumonia, and Covid-19.
He was admitted at a hospital on Oct. 10 after suffering from fever and cough for four days.
Of the new patients, 24 were contact-traced, seven detected through expanded testing, three tested for other reasons while two were symptomatic.
Of the new cases, eight were minors, including a two-day-old boy.
This, as a 106-year-old resident of Barangay Irisan recovered from Covid-19.
City health services officer Rowena Galpo said the patient, who was confined for 11 days at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center, was discharged Tuesday.
Galpo said the patient, who developed mild symptoms, tested positive for the virus on Oct. 9.
Mayor Benjamin Magalong said the Covid-19 fight in the city has shifted to the households as seen in the current statistics.
This meant that city’s strategies should now target families and neighborhoods to engender a behavioral change in such a way that minimum health standards against the disease becomes part of their way of life even at home.
Magalong asked barangay officials to take the lead in implementing the new programs in their areas of jurisdiction which included information education communication campaign and dialogues in barangay, which have the potential to become flashpoints or hotspots, and giving incentives to barangays that are complying with health measures.
Earlier, a 77-year-old male died on October 16 after three days of confinement, while an 80-year-old male, who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital on Oct. 16. Both had health problems.
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