PARANAQUE City Mayor Edwin Olivarez revealed on Wednesday that the city government will continue to hire contact tracers until next year despite the significant dropped of COVID-19 cases in the city.

Olivarez said that 100 contract tracers will be hired by the city government after passing the orientation and training in relation to covid response such as profiling and identifying close contacts of probable covid positive.

The newly recruited contact tracers came from eight barangays which will be deployed in the city’s to Districts 1 and 2, starting this month.

The mayor said the 100 contact tracers will be working for the city for 15 days and will receive P537 per day.

Olivarez wants the contact tracers to intensify the PDITR (prevent-detect-isolate-treat and reintegrate) strategy being implemented by the local government units in bringing down COVID-19 cases.

He said the strict implementation of the PDITR will determine who were positive, probable, and suspected to have acquired the COVID-19 virus.

As of Tuesday, November 9, the total number of active cases in the city is 158 or 0.4 percent with 18 new cases.

Total confirmed cases is now 37,492 while recovered patients are 36,597 (97.6 percent) and deaths have a total number of 737 (2.0 percent) according to Parañaque Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (CESU).

The barangays with the most number of active cases are Don Bosco with 38 (D2); San Isidro, 28 (D1); Merville, 16 (D2) and BF Homes, 13 (D2). Don Galo is the only barangay with zero COVID-19 cases as of today.

“Our focus now is local economic recovery by coming up various measures that will allow more business establishments to open and operate which will provide employment to local residents,” Olivarez explained.

He added that the containment of the virus will be a big factor for the recovery of country’s economy.

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