Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong confirmed that eight new Coronavirus cases were recorded today April 25 and the youngest is an eight-day old baby.
Magalong said that four Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC) workers, two doctors, one nurse and a hospital clerk test positive with the virus.
They are from Woodsgate Subd. Camp 7, Sto. Tomas Proper and from BGH Compound barangays.
All the four health workers are confined at the BGHMC and are in stable condition.
For containment, the mayor said he will order the lockdown of the subject barangays and subdivision.
BGHMC Medical Chief Dr. Ricardo Ruñez said they have started all necessary measures to trace all contacts and are preparing their hospital staff for testing.
“We will start disinfecting wards; have advised to temporarily stop admissions and communicating with other hospitals for this matter. We will continue with the triage,” Ruñez told the mayor. –
The other four are two Overseas Filipino Workers both from USA and residents of Dominican barangay and La Trinidad, Benguet; an employee of the Baguio Country Club and an eight-day old baby now at the Pines City Doctors Hospital.
The mayor said appropriate measures are being undertaken on medical interventions, contract tracing, quarantine and disinfection to contain the further transmission of the virus. – PIO Baguio