THERE are 52 identified coronavirus disease (Covid-19) clusters in Baguio City, said Dr. Rowena Galpo, City Health Services Office (CHSO) department head.

She said the clusters were identified in a church, a birthday party, market, government offices, banks and police personnel where local transmission started.

As of Monday noon, August 24, Baguio City logged 284 cases, with 92 active cases, eight deaths and 184 recoveries, the CHSO said.

City health officials are currently employing the four-pillar strategy, which includes contact tracing to be able to identify and contain immediately contacts of the infected, followed by testing where the city is in the thick of expanded testing in its fight against Covid-19.

The city has now tested 34,000 via the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain React Test (RT-PCR) and 9,000 Rapid Diagnostic Tests [RDT].

The next pillar is isolation with the city's two established isolation sites with barangay isolation units being identified, while the last pillar is treatment with the Baguio General Health Medical Center as the Covid treatment center but with private hospitals also capable of taking care of the infected.

The city has halted mass testing and now only tests asymptomatic cases, close contacts, health workers and frontliners.

Galpo said that 65 percent of the cases do not show symptoms of the virus, while 25 percent show mild symptoms -- sore throat, cough and some fever; seven percent have moderate symptoms; three percent have severe symptoms, while the eight deaths recorded comprise less one percent of the cases.

The contact tracing efforts of the City Government yielded 43 percent of the total Covid-19 cases, while the expanded-targeted testing of sectors considered as high risks comprise 34 percent of the cases.

The City Health said 85 percent of confirmed cases have no history of travel, confirming local transmission of the virus in ongoing on the city.