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Magalong optimistic Covid cases to go down

DOWN TREND. Mayor Benjamin Magalong is optimistic that Covid-19 cases in the city will go down as April draws to a close. The city saw its number of confirmed cases jump by more than 2,800 for the 27 days of the month, although the past five days show that the number is going down. Here, the mayor is seen doing Zumba after the Monday flag raising ceremony with the top cops of the region, PBGen. Oliver Lee, who replaced newly retired PBGen. R’Win Pagkalinawan at the Police Regional Office – Cordillera and also outgoing Baguio City Police Office director PCol. Allen Rae Co. Neil Clark Ongchangco / PIO Baguio Photo

April is almost over and Baguio mayor Benjamin Magalong, with a sigh of relief, is optimistic that the surge experienced for the month of April in Covid-19 cases will go down.

Although expressing surprise over the high cases of Covid-19, Magalong said that this is expected to go down after the conclusion of the city’s active community testing where 167 cases were detected from the 3,000 tests.

“The past two weeks we experience about 104 cases a day. That is high. Now we expect that to go down since we are done with our active community testing,” said the mayor in English-Filipino Monday.

He said that he was surprised of the low positivity rate where he expected that the city have 12 percent but it came out that it is only 5.3 percent compared to other provinces in the region.

“We are amazed since we expect that it will be a 12 percent positivity rate but it came out that it is only 5.3 percent,” said the mayor, who was tested positive before the three day ACT on April 15-17.

But then he is alarmed over the high number of deaths with 60 already logged with the month not yet over. He said, however, that most of these deaths are not from the city but from other provinces of the region.

Records from the Public Information Office – Baguio showed that there is indeed a down trend in positive cases the past five days.

After a high of 122 cases on April 22, the city recorded 83 on April 22, 99 on April 23 then 50, 103, 66 and 96 the next days which are below the 104 daily cases noted by the mayor.

The five days also saw improvement in recovery with more recoveries on said days than new ones. After a low of 30 on April 21, the recoveries on the next days were: 156, 187, 116, 108, 72 and 100.

However, recovery is much lower than new cases still for the month, with 2,822 in 27 days or more than 104 cases a day compared to recovery of 2,142 or some 79 recovery a day.

Baguio’s total death remains high with at least three deaths a day after logging 71 for the past 26 days.

High cases of Covid were recorded in all provinces of the Cordillera Administrative Region with more than 9,000 logged for the month alone. The region had less than 20,000 at the start of the month and now the number is expected to breach the 30,000 mark with 29,482 logged as of April 27.

Baguio leads the region with 10,357 cases followed by Benguet with 7,411. Mountain Province, the last local government unit to log its first Covid case, is the third biggest with 3,925 followed by Kalinga with 3,822.

Ifugao, which has a surge also this month is fifth with 2,593, while the provinces of Apayao and Abra remain in the three digit mark with 881 and 493, respectively.

Abra, which was the first to log a Covid case in the region, is still under modified enhanced community quarantine, along with the National Capital Region and its nearby provinces in the Tagalog Region.

The general community quarantine is expected to continue in Baguio and region after April 30.

This month, the country experienced a surge with confirmed cases now reaching the one million mark.

In Asia, India has the worst time with the alarming increase in cases. Thailand has declared a lockdown after experiencing a 24,000 increase in the past 25 days.

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