AMID the rampant ongoing spread of COVID-19 ravaging the city of Baguio, Mayor Benjamin Magalong remains confident that the city can meet and fully vaccinate its target population of 95 percent of the city’s residents by year end. The numbers are currently bleak, with the city experiencing nearly 250 cases [...]
IF you are one of the more than 143,000 Baguio residents who have been fully vaccinated since September 24, then there’s a high probability that you will be reading this. According to the City Health Service Office, no death can be traced directly from any of the COVID vaccines administered [...]
POLICY experts said the failure to adopt tobacco harm reduction (THR) strategies negatively affects public health and disproportionately targets those in low- to- middle income countries as eight million people die from tobacco-related use each year, and 80 percent of the more than one billion tobacco smokers are from developing [...]
By Marilou Guieb Over a hundred years ago, when tuberculosis (TB) was ravaging the country, many of the afflicted were sent to Baguio, then known as Kafagway, to recover. It was believed that the pristine environment and clean air, lots of vegetables and fresh fruits, would be the key to [...]
THE Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) has vaccinated four-fifths of its registered tourism workers, according to the Department of Tourism. Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat revealed that overall across the country, some 51.40 percent or 126,097 of 245,338 registered tourism workers are already vaccinated. Metro Manila currently has the highest ratio of [...]
THE city is looking to bolster the healthcare capacity of its facilities by increasing bed capacity, as well as hiring more healthcare workers as personnel shortages threaten the city in light of increasing COVID-19 incidence. According to Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong, the city is currently working on a scheme to [...]
A MAJORITY of COVID-19 infections in Baguio City was observed among the working age group of 20 to 49 years old, but most of the deaths occurred among senior citizens. COVID-19 data as of Aug. 21, 2021 from the City Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (CESU) of the Health Services Office [...]
THE city is now disallowing previous home-isolation measures for COVID-19 positive patients, mandating the vast majority of all confirmed cases to undergo isolation in one of the city’s hospitals or COVID-19 isolation facilities. Under Memorandum No. 609, Series of 2021, all COVID-19 cases, regardless of whether they are symptomatic or [...]
THE Department of Tourism-Cordillera (DOT-CAR), the Baguio City government, and the Baguio Tourism Council (BTC) have teamed up to vaccinate some 7,500 tourism workers in the city. The 7,500 workers were targeted as part of an initiative to ensure that these workers, who were likely to come into contact with [...]
THE Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC), Cordillera's biggest tertiary hospital, has closed its doors to some patients under the strain of increasing COVID-19 incidence in the province. Under the strain of increasing COVID-19 incidence and the growing occupancy of the hospital, the BGHMC has limited patient admission to [...]
