BACOLOD City – Residents not yet enlisted to the Bacolod City Contact Tracing (BaC-Trac) system should go to their respective barangay councils for offline registration.
As part of the city’s strengthened effort to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019, registration for BaC-Trac was made mandatory under City Ordinance 941, said Liga ng mga Barangay president Lady Gles Pallen.
Bacolod was the first locality in the Visayas to use the application, which the city adopted from the South Cotabato COVID Contact Tracing System (SC-CCTS).
According to Pallen, the BaC-Trac system is among the interventions being implemented by the Bacolod City Emergency Operations Center (EOC). It is a localized web-based and mobile-based application developed for the efficient and expeditious contact tracing of confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) positive patients.
Once registered in the system, an individual will be issued a BaC-Trac card, which features the holder’s name, address, identification number, and a uniquely-assigned quick response (QR) code.
Through the online contact tracing system, the city government can record the movement of residents around the city and elsewhere in the province and easily locate people suspected of interacting with COVID-19 patients.
When a person enters a government building or a shopping mall, the QR code from his or her card will be scanned.
The cards will serve as a digital logbook to record the date and time of entry of visit.
Individuals who are not residents of Bacolod and may have temporary personal or business transactions in the city, or who may have to report for work daily, will be issued a BaC-Trac visitor’s card.
Business and government establishments are required to download the mobile application CCTS Logger on Google store to be able to scan BaC-Trac cards.
As of Thursday night, Bacolod has 452 active cases, 4,089 recoveries and 118 deaths./PN
