2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2024? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BECAUSE of the unpredictable situations spawned by the world health crisis which the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games originally supposed to be held last July 24 to August 9 in Japan, the governing body International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to…
Think Outside Of The Box Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read on www.thoughtcatalog.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. “IN a small Italian town, hundreds of years ago, a small business owner owed a large sum of…
The worst is far from over By Leonardo Micua JUST as we were about to write this column, the social media was abuzz with reports that the UK-COVID-19 variant, described personally by President Duterte as a “monster virus”, has already managed to enter the Philippines. And this happened as the…
RESTORATION OF HISTORIC H.E. BLDG – Once the subject of a controversy about its unannounced demolition, the restoration of the Home Economics Bldg. (inside the West Central Elementary School), considered a historical because it was used by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as his headquarters during the Lingayen landing in 1945, continues and can…
ALARMING REALITY THE University of the Philippines OCTA Research Group listed Pangasinan as one of the 10 provinces in the country that recorded a high positivity rate. The data was made public when the agency, together with the Department of Health (DOH) warned the public of an ‘uptick’ in COVID-19…
BASED on data collated, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) has determined that the recovery rate of persons infected with COVID-19 in the province is at 78 percent. PHO chief Dr. Anna De Guzman said the data is obtained by recording recovery rate from the virus compared to deaths over a…
DAGUPAN is still locked in as the epicenter of the pandemic in Pangasinan after it tallied 95 more new confirmed active cases against only 43 recovered cases based on the monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) for the period January 8 to 14. Records showed that as of January…
PROVINCIAL Health Officer Anna de Guzman said the surge of new COVID-19 cases is because of people’s mobility during the holiday season. She cited four situations that contributed to the surge: Pangasinan vendors of fruits, vegetables, meat and other essential goods traveled to provinces where cases of COVID-19 were high,…
THE Dagupan City government has secured an initial allocation of 40,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca – a British pharmaceutical company, as soon as the Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves its use in the country. The city’s Public Information Office said a tripartite agreement was signed last…
ENFORCING HEALTH PROTOCOL – A family that was holding a picnic at the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City was asked to leave the picnic area after they were caught by the Maritime Police violating the ban on picnics and the health protocol – not wearing face masks. No one was arrested. (Punchhoto by…
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