Two-day-old baby dies of COVID-19 in Baguio City
The City Health Services Office on COVID-19 said that as of 7:00 a.m of August 13, the city has a total of 189 confirmed cases, 74 active, and 109 recoveries.Mayor Benjamin Magalong has ordered the mandatory testing of all employees of groceries and department stores after several of them tested positive for COVID-19.
A clustering of cases was reported in one of the grocery stores in the city. Out of 64 employees, 14 tested positive for COVID-19 last August 8. He said this is a warning sign of the disease vulnerability of the said sector which the city should heed. Magalong had earlier required banks to subject their personnel to Reverse Transcriptase- Polymerase Chain Reaction after the risk-based expanded testing done by the city found a number of them infected.
He said the banks have been complying, resulting in the discovery of more infections in their ranks which now run to over 30 cases.
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