BONTOC, Mountain Province, Jan. 26(PIA) Bontoc residents voluntarily submit themselves to be swabbed for RT-PCR testing in the Aggressive Community Testing (ACT) being conducted by the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 through the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and the Bureau of Fire Protection.
Swab testing in Bontocm Moutain Province(BFP photo)
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The mass testing started today in Barangays Samoki and Tocucan, to be followed by Barangay Bontoc Ili tomorrow andbarangays Poblacion and Caluttit on Jan. 28. Two mass swabbing stations were set up in Samoki, which is the most affected by COVID among the barangays.
The ACT is targeting 5,000 tests in the municipality prioritizing these barangays which have the most number of cases. It is also scheduled in the towns of Sabangan, Sagada and Bauko which have also recorded surge of COVID cases.
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Published December 17, 2020, 9:04 AM
BAGUIO CITY – The City Health Service Office (CHSO) reported another death related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), 39 new cases, and 14 recoveries on Wednesday.
The CHSO said a 64-year-old female was dead on arrival at the hospital due to ruptured aortic aneurysm on Dec.15. A post mortem swab test yielded positive results for COVID-19.
The city has a total of nine deaths, 455 cases, and 356 recoveries from Dec.1 to 16, bringing the total number of deaths to 50 or 1.44%, active cases to 276 or 7.96%, and recoveries to 3,143 or 90.60% from the 3,469 confirmed cases since March.
Of the new cases, the CHSO said 28 are symptomatic while four were contact traced, three through expanded testing, and five others from testings done at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center and Parkway and Diagnostic Center.
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+ December 14, 2020 THE Panabo City Health Office reported that 117 individuals tested positive for Sars-Cov-2, the virus causing Covid-19, from the Aggressive Community Testing (ACT) of the Department of Health.
This was out of the 1,008 persons under monitoring (PUM) testing in the city. Out of the number of positive cases, 51 had exposure or travel history to the Premium Market (Wet Market).
Because of this, the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) headed by Governor Edwin I. Jubahib recommended the temporary suspension of the market’s operation, tagging it as a “hotspot for local transmission.”
City Mayor and Economic Enterprise Manager Jose E. Relampagos, together with the Panabo IATF, requested not to suspend the market’s operation as it is the primary source of people’s basic and essential needs.