The Cordillera continues to have more cases of the Covid-19 as the vaccination program in the region finished its first week of implementation targeting priority frontline workers.
The Department of Health-Cordillera reported the region has also recorded 25 cases of the B117 or UK variant of the Covid-19, with two of them dying from the disease.
The 25 UK variant cases are among the cases of the Covid-19 recorded in the region, which is nearing the 16,000 mark with a total of 15,970 cases as of March 10.
DOH-Cordillera Assistant Director Amelita Pangilinan reported 22 of the UK variant cases have already recovered and one remains at an isolation facility. The two fatalities had co-morbidities.
A total of 999 unique individuals were contact traced from the first to third generation close contacts, 166 of them are still completing their 14-day quarantine, while 526 specimens were submitted to the Philippine Genome Center for testing, 20 of which were those of close contacts of known UK variant positive cases.
Also, as of March 10, a total of 1,299 or 8.13 percent are active cases, 14,441 or 90.43 percent have already recovered, and with 225 deaths or a 1.41 percent case fatality rate.
Among the active cases, 104 are from Apayao, 604 from Baguio, 240 from Benguet, 24 from Ifugao, 130 from Kalinga, and 197 from Mountain Province.
Abra has no active cases as of date.
Overall, the region is currently in moderate epidemic risk level in terms of two-week growth change (TWGC) with 22 percent TWGC.
Only Apayao is in the high risk category with 480 percent TWGC; Baguio City with 95 percent, Benguet with 50 percent, and Mountain Province, four percent.
Abra, Kalinga, and Ifugao are in low risk with less than zero percent TWGC.
The region is low risk in terms of average daily attack rate (ADAR) per 100,000 population with 6.9 percent ADAR.
Baguio City, Kalinga, and Mountain Province are at high risk with 12.66 percent, 10.03 percent, and 52 percent, respectively, while Apayao and Benguet are in moderate risk.
A total of 238,760 individuals or 13.10 percent of the population were tested through RT-PCR yielding a total of 6.69 percent positivity rate from the total cumulative cases. – Hanna C. Lacsamana
April 25, 2024
