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Baguio contact tracing teams to help Cebu City, police exec says
Baguio City will assist Cebu City in establishing and improving its contact tracing system to help control the spread of COVID-19.
The Baguio City Police Office is coordinating with Police Regional Office-7 to arrange training for Cebu City personnel on the contact tracing system.
Technical assistance, including data collection tools and mapping, will be provided by Baguio City.
Brig. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, PRO-7 chief, personally requested Baguio's help in their contact tracing efforts.
The training will be based on cognitive interviewing techniques, a method familiar to many policemen.
Baguio City's Mayor Benjamin Magalong, former director of the PNP-CIDG, has emphasized the importance of contact tracing.
Cebu City has prepared 80 contact tracing teams with the help of the Department of Health and has begun training them.
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