MANKAYAN, Benguet –The local govnerment here has resumption
issuance of travel permits at the Poblacion Plaza on August 18 after suspending
such after tracing was done to find
contacts of the town’s four new Covid-19 cases.
Mayor Frenzel Ayong said
the new cases were known due to contact tracing and l swab results of close
contact of a minor who tested positive of the Covid-19 in Vigan City, Ilocos
Sur.
The new cases include a
46 year old female from Pabileng, Barangay Tabio; a 45 year old male residing
at Mankayan sub-office in Barangay Guinaoang; a 28 year old male from Matiked,
Barangay Paco, and male, 55, from Busigan, Barangay Balili.
They were transported to
the Benguet General Hospital in La Trinidad in August 11 while lockdown was
ordered in their areas of residence effective evening of Aug. 10 until firther
notice.
Ayong said they were
notified by Vigan City government about a seven year old child who came from
Mankayan and tested positive for Covid-19.
The child was listed as
the 34th Covid19 patient in Vigan.
The child with her
family arrived in Vigan from Baguio City on July 24 but their travel was
“uncoordinated.”
The family was
immediately quarantined even as barangay personnel in Vigan said they had no
substantial contacts with other people.
It was traced that
the minor together with his family from Lower Paalaban, Barangay Paco went to
the Mankayan town plaza in July 20 to apply for health certificates and travel
documents.
The family travelled to Vigan in July 23.
As precaution, the mayor
ordered contact tracing of contacts of the minor that included 140
individuals who were at the plaza applying for travel passes during the time
the family was there.
Seventy
eight were initially contact traced, and in the test
results that came out in August 10, four were positive
for Covid-19.
The Mankayan government is still conducting
contact tracing of remaining possible contacts of the child- patient as well as
the new cases. – PIA CAR
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