Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong (File photo)
BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Benjamin Magalong continues to work while under isolation after contracting mild coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infection, an official said Wednesday.
“Very mild lang siya, nagta-trabaho pa rin siya habang nasa bahay (His infection is mild and he continues to work while at home),” City Public Information Office (PIO) chief Aileen Refuerzo said in a phone interview on Wednesday.
She said Magalong tested positive for Covid-19 based on results released on January 29 and is now on his fourth day of home isolation.
“By weekend, pwede na siyang lumabas (He can already go out on weekend),” Refuerzo said.
This is the second time Magalong was infected with Covid-19, the first time in April last year. He has already received a booster shot against Covid-19.
In a radio interview on Wednesday, Magalong said the city’s Covid-19 cases continue to decline.
“Our highest seven-day moving average of daily cases was 693. Now, we are down to just 141. We saw the peak in cases last January 3 but now, the cases are continuously declining. It took us 29 days before our cases declined and our reproduction number to be at below 1," Magalong said in Filipino.
Amid the continued improvement in Covid-19 situation, Magalong said they will request the national government to downgrade the city to Alert Level 2 by next week.
Baguio City is under Alert Level 3 until February 15. (PNA)
