Updated @ 1:29 a.m., Jan. 3, 2022BAGUIO CITY, Benguet, Philippines — The city government has again closed its borders to tourists on Sunday amid the threat posed by the COVID-19 Omicron variant and the rising number of infections. ADVERTISEMENTThe city’s Visitor Information and Travel Assistance (Visita) platform stopped entertaining applications from tourists beginning on Sunday (Jan. 2), following a meeting called by Mayor Benjamin Magalong, said Aloysius Mapalo, city tourism operations supervisor. But Baguio will honor approved schedules and hotel bookings secured by guests prior to the Jan. 2 suspension, “until further notice,” Mapalo said. But the city health services office says Baguio’s COVID-19 active cases rose to 64 on New Year’s Day from only four on Christmas Day. The city had benefited from a sustained drop in infections last month after enduring a wave of COVID-19 transmissions in September.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer January 02, 2022 21:55 UTC