Baguio's popular resto closes over Covid-19 cases

BAGUIO CITY — A popular restaurant here -- a known venue for large gatherings was temporarily closed last week due to cluster of Covid-19 infections.
    The closure will be for two weeks, management of Good Taste Restaurant said, adding it was for contact tracing and mass testing to identify those infected with the dreaded virus.
    “Good Taste wants to assure patrons that the management is diligently complying and doing all actions to "feed and provide sustenance to our employees and maintaining our facilities for us to serve you," added in its advisory.
    Management said they were practicing "proper hygiene, sanitation, and social distancing; disinfecting and cleaning of facilities coordination with health and government officials and feeding, providing shelter and comfort to our employees."
    Meanwhile, Baguio City had 2,229 confirmed Covid-19 cases with 675 active, 28 deaths and 1,526 recoveries.
    It was tagged last week as a high-risk area in an updated study by the OCTA team of researchers.
    The study was conducted from Oct. 4 to 17 for local government units outside the National Capital Region.
    Octa also ranked Itogon, Benguet as Number 1 in terms of Covid-19 attack rates and placed Baguio City as fourth.
    The "high-risk" classification was based on high daily case load, high attack rate and high hospitalization occupancy.
    Itogon had a daily attack rate [per 1,000 population] of 11.6%, while Baguio had a 10.2-percent attack rate.
    Other high-risk areas in Luzon are Calamba (Laguna), Angono, Cainta and Tatay (Rizal), Lucena (Quezon), Ilagan (Isabela), Batangas City (Batangas), General Trias (Cavite) and Pasay, Makati, Pasig and Mandaluyong in the National Capital Region (NCR).
    Baguio City also ranked 12th in terms of most cases per day outside the NCR, with 37 cases per day.