Baguio maintains sliding virus cases
Baguio City has strengthened its resolve to maintain the downward trend in its coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases reported in the past weeks.
According to Mayor Benjamin Magalong, the city has to maintain if not intensify the health and safety protocols it has been implementing to sustain such trend.
On the other hand, City Health Services Office (CHSO) chief Rowena Galpo said statistics had improved based on the two-week growth rate (TGWR) and the average daily attack rate (ADAR).
She said the city’s ADAR from 31 January to 14 February was 4.7 percent, which is below the threshold set by the World Health Organization (WHO) at five percent.
For the TGWR, the number of cases in the last two weeks was lower by 148 cases than the previous two weeks.
With this, Magalong said the downtrend also manifested in the number of case confinements in hospitals and isolation facilities in the city, which he said considerably dropped, effectively decongesting facilities and providing a breather for the medical frontliners.
This, as shown in an ongoing University of the Philippines-Baguio study of the city’s Covid-19 data which continues to interpret and map out Baguio’s Covid-19 data through various statistical data analyses of the city’s confirmed cases to establish patterns and relevant information on the
situation in the city.
In its latest update, the team from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, led by Prof. Rizavel Addawe, which has been conducting the analyses, said the city registered an overall positivity rate of 4.25 percent, which means that in every 100 persons to be tested, there are four persons who will have a positive result.
“As recommended by WHO, attack rates and positivity rates should remain at or below five percent for at least 14 days. A rate higher than this means more people are getting infected,” the team said.