BAGUIO CITY – The city
government started its two-week ban against the entry of non-essential
travelers and stranded residents, except those coming from Benguet, according
to Mayor Benjamin Magalong.
In a statement, Magalong
said he issued the directive March 27 to boost the enhanced community
quarantine (ECQ) imposed by the national government in the entire Luzon on
March 16 to contain the coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
“We are escalating our
ECQ status and we will no longer allow Baguio residents who are stranded in
other provinces (except Benguet) to enter the city in the next two weeks,”
Magalong said.
Magalong said local
health officials told him in a meeting on Friday that all the city’s confirmed
Covid-19 cases have travel history from areas infected with the coronavirus.
“With this information,
an opportunity is present to fast-track our healing process by closing our
borders in the next two weeks to non-essential travels except food and other
essential item deliveries and cargoes,” he said.
As of Friday, Baguio
City has three confirmed cases, including one who returned from Italy but
already recovered from the disease. The Baguio City Health Services Office
categorized the two other as “presumptive” cases, both are residents of Metro
Manila.
The city health office
also reported 311 patients under investigation (PUIs) and 1,436 people under
monitoring (PUMs). Over 700 of them have completed their 14-day quarantine. (PNA)
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