BUSTLING CITY GONE – A.B. Fernandez Ave., Dagupan City’s main commercial district, usually crowded with vehicles and shoppers, is virtually a ghost town at 6p.m. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
BUSTLING CITY GONE
PANGASINAN UPDATES AS of 9 am, today (Sunday), updates from the Pangasinan Provincial Health Office listed 12 confirmed COVID-19 cases, four of whom had died, 48 patients under investigation (PUI), 18 had been admitted and under treatment, and 28 others had been discharged. Two had died in confinement, one of…
COVID-19: 12 Confirmed cases, two PUIs died
THE province is no longer simply under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) but as Extreme Enhanced Quarantine (EECQ) from March 23 to 31. Governor Amado Espino III issued E.O.No. 0015-2020 after receiving the report that two persons: one from Rosales and another from Bayambang, died, while two, both from Malasiqui, are being…
Pangasinan on Extreme ECQ till March 31
SPOT THE MISTAKE – A Dagupan POSO strikes a pose as if threatening to shoot a rider as he takes the latter’s body temperature with a scanner. (The PUNCH notes a mistake of POSO enforcer in implementing standard procedures in the photo.) (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
SPOT THE MISTAKE
AS of March 25, the two persons in Malasiqui town found positive of COVID-19 and presently confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in Barangay Bolingit, San Carlos City, are already in stable condition. This was disclosed by Dr. Cielo Almoite, assistant provincial health officer, who earlier confirmed that two of the original…
2 COVID-19 patients in stable condition
THE provincial government has asked the national government to start providing test kits to the province to check and validate increasing suspected cases. Governor Amado Espino III said the test kits will enable the provincial government to test as many so that persons positive or symptomatic of the virus can be…
Espino to DOH: Give us test kits now
CONTRA COVID-19 MORE than 600 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) detained at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dagupan City are staying in the “safest place” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This was how Jail Officer 1 Gizelle Marie Panergo described the situation inside the facility aid which…
BJMP Dagupan is “safest place” in the city
COLORFUL FACE MASKS – Street vendor shows varied colorful cloth face masks that small entrepreneurs produced in the face of shortage of surgical face masks. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
COLORFUL FACE MASKS
PANGASINAN recorded its first confirmed case on March 20 in Bayambang town. This was confirmed by Bayambang Mayor Cezar Quiambao, in a live interview aired over Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan, where he also confirmed that the victim died at the Lung Center of the Philippines. “The patient was tested earlier this…
