Barangays urged to conduct IEC on Covid-19

BARANGAY officials and members of the barangay health emergency response teams (BHERTs) are requested to conduct dialogue and consultations with the residents in potential outbreak areas of the Coronavirus disease (Covid – 19)

The dialogue is aimed at informing and educating their constituents on the basic health protocols to control the spread of the virus.

In a recent meeting with members of the Liga ng mga Barangay, Mayor Benjamin Magalong urged punong barangays to visit the city’s operations center to be appraised by the data analysts on the identified potential outbreak areas in their barangays.

Magalong said the geographic information system- based analysis being used by the city’s operation center can ascertain the potential outbreak areas in the different barangays and engage

their constituents by informing them to comply with the basic health protocols to prevent the increase in Covid cases citywide.

The mayor added the transmission of the deadly virus has now shifted to the households thus it is important for the barangay officials and BHERTs members to intensify their grassroots information and education campaign to remind them to sustain their observance of the basic health protocols.

Magalong disclosed the city government will produce some 3,000 tarpaulins and more than 60,000 flyers for distribution to the different barangays as part of the city’s IEC campaign against Covid-19.

He disclosed that because of the city’s aggressive contact tracing and expanded testing efforts, the clustering of Covid cases were identified in some of the barangays, particularly MRR Queen of Peace during the early stages of the local transmission as well as Slaughterhouse Compound and Lower Lourdes Subdivision, among others.

The mayor iterated that more efforts still have to be exerted to control the local transmission in the households. Baguio City Public Information Office