A HEALTHCARE worker from Laoac town became the first-ever confirmed case of COVID-19 of the town. According to Laoac Mayor Ricardo Balderas, the patient, a resident of Barangay Poblacion, is suspected to have acquired the virus from her work at a hospital outside the municipality. “The patient is now being…
TWO COVID-19 CASES THE city of Alaminos was placed under Extreme Enhanced Community Quarantine (EECQ) shortly after registering the second confirmed case of COVID-19 on April 7. Mayor Arth Bryan Celeste issued Executive Order No. 41 placing the entire city under EECQ following the confirmation by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) that the Patient Under Investigation…
TRADITIONAL PALM BLESSING – A priest blesses the host of palm fronds collected from parishioners in Lingayen town in lieu of blessing these while being held by devotees after each celebration of the Holy Mass on Palm Sunday. The marked fronds were returned to the homes of owners. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
WEARING of face masks by all persons in public places in Pangasinan for the duration and or its extension of the Enhanced Community Quarantine is already mandatory by law. This is contained in the Provincial Ordinance No. 235-2020 passed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) during its special session on April…
FIRST WAVE THE provincial government completed the first wave of relief package distribution in all 44 towns and three cities in Pangasinan in 3 days. The relief distribution kicked off on Monday, March 30 in ten towns, ended on April 2. The first towns that received their allocations of relief…
PICK-UP TRUCK INSTEAD OF A DONKEY – A priest from the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese makes the round in barangays in Dagupan City to bless parishioners with their fronds, literally depicting the scene in the Bible with a difference – Jesus rode a donkey. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
IN response of the provincial government to the call of the Department of Interior and Local Governments (DILG) to prepare isolation facilities in their areas for treatment of asymptomatic patients, the provincial government set up a ‘halfway house’ at the Farmers Pavilion inside the provincial nursery in Brgy. Tebag in Sta. Barbara…
OPERATIONS of the Eastern Pangasinan District Hospital (EPDH) in Tayug town remain suspended since only 68 percent of the swab test results of hospital staff have been released by the Baguio General Hospital as of April 11. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said she will wait for the…
THE provincial government went on the offensive to combat COVID-19 in the province by disinfecting critical areas by conducting misting cannon operations in towns and specific target areas. Responders from Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office and Provincial Engineering Office initially conducted misting operations in the towns of Tayug,…
IT’S BUSINESS AS USUAL — CSI Grocery promptly resumes operations inside Stadia after it was razed to the ground last week to serve the daily needs of its loyal customers. (Contributed by Philstar Wire Service /ECV)
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