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One new case from Benguet is 84-year old man who died on Jan. 24 (Eagle News) – The Philippines now has a total of 25 detected UK variant cases, following the detection of eight additional cases, the Department of Health said Friday night, Feb . 5. One of the confirmed cases had died. This was an 84-year old man from Benguet who had no travel history nor any known contact with any UK variant case. […]
From 750 samples per week, PGC limited to testing only 48 samples last week (Eagle News) — The Department of Health said that the global shortage of reagents for genome sequencing has affected the country’s ability to do genome sequencing on COVID-19 samples in the country for testing on the UK variant B.1.1.7 and the South African variant of the COVID-19 virus, SARS-CoV2. The DOH said that due to this deficiency, the Philippine Genome […]
DOH expanding contact tracing efforts in CAR as 615 contacts identified (Eagle News) — The Department of Health said that it has traced “three major clusters of infections” in Bontoc province which all have the so-called UK variant, B.1.1.7. This was discovered by the DOH as it was trying to trace the source of the UK variant of the COVID-19 virus in Bontoc where at least 12 UK variant cases have been already detected by […]
Cases can still be linked to each other, says health experts https://youtu.be/7Uhf_OcOWfs (Eagle News) — The Department of Health (DOH) said that there is no community transmission yet of the highly infectious B.1.1.7 variant of the COVID-19 virus in the country. DOH officials and heath experts said that the local transmission of the UK variant cases in Bontoc is not considered as community transmission as they can still establish linkages in the reported cases. […]
At least 11 cases of B.1.17 variant came from 1 barangay in Bontoc (Eagle News) – The Department of Health is recommending the lockdown extension in Bontoc for another two weeks as majority of the recent COVID-19 cases found positive for the UK variant came from the province. The DOH have monitored the clustering of cases in Bontoc province based on positive samples for the B.1.1.7 variant, or the highly infectious variant first detected […]
BONDOC, Mountain Province (Eagle News) – Bunga ng biglaang pagbuhos ng malakas ng ulan sa Mountain Province ay gumuho ang isang bahagi ng bundok sa Bontoc-Baguio Road sa may Brgy. Chachakan, Bontoc, Mountain Province. Hindi agad naalis ang lupa at mga bato sa daan dahil sa tuloy-tuloy na pagbagsak ng mga bato at lupa sa kalsada. Nagdulot ito ng matinding pagka abala sa mga biyahero dahil tumagal ito ng ilang oras. Ang iba sa mga biyahero ay […]
Featuring the province of Bontoc, Mountain Province in Cordillera Region (photos captured by Lovely Ann Cruz)
Bontoc, Mt. Province (Eagle News)- Naki-isa sa Nationwide Earthquake Drill ang mga mamamayan ng Mountain Province partikular dito sa bayan ng Bontoc na siyang sentro ng lalawigan. Eksaktong alas 9:00 ng umaga nang may tumunog na sirena bilang hudyat na may magaganap kunwari na pagyanig. Nagsagawa ng drop, cover, and hold procedures ang mga nakilahok sa pagsasanay. Pagkatapos ng 45 segundo ay maingat at dali-daling lumabas sa gusali at exit doors ang mga “participants” patungong […]
Ang Cordillera ay madalas na destinasyon ng mga turista mapa-dayuhan man o pinoy dahil sa angkin nitong ganda at mayamang kasaysayan. Isa sa kanilang ipinagmamalaki ay ang Maligcong Rice Terraces na matatagpuan sa Bontoc, Mt. Province.
