TIMELY ARRIVAL – The Dagupan Vaccination Team of the City Health Office holding fort at the Dagupan City Astrodome, the city’s vaccination facility, account for the 4,200 doses of Sinovac vaccine that arrived on June 10, 2021 to be administered to A1, A2 and A3 priority groups. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DESPITE the relaxation of restrictions at the province’s borders, it is still not easy to enter Pangasinan, especially if one is not an Authorized Person Outside of Residence (APOR) or if one is not under emergency medical condition. This is the new rule based on Executive Order No. 0049-2021 or…
OBJECTIVE: 100% VACCINATED STAFF THE number of provincial employees that rejected vaccination was actually only about 600 or 10 percent of the more than 6,000 employees working at the capitol in Lingayen. This was clarified by Provincial Information Officer Orpheus Velasco who said the 1,000 capitol workers mentioned by Dr….
FIVE modern jeepneys operated by the BTSI, the company that operates the taxi service in Dagupan City, are running through the city’s streets daily to support the government’s “Libreng Sakay”- Free Ride for Health Workers and APORs Program. The units are colored green with clean, spacious and comfortable seats. Five…
PANGASINAN’S PANDEMIC UPDATE AFTER a short period of optimism, records of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) for the past seven days from June 4 to 10 show that the trend logging more new confirmed COVID-19 cases than the number of patients that recovered in Pangasinan continue. In that period, there…
IN spite of the MGCQ status in Pangasinan, Dagupan City, the town of Manaoag and two other towns are still not open to travelers from the National Capital Region (NCR+) in a bid to further control the spread of COVID-19 in their areas. Provincial Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office (PTCAO)…
LIBRENG SAKAY IN DAGUPAN – One of the brand new modern jeepneys owned and deployed by the BTSI ply new routes to serve the medical frontliners, authorized persons outside residence, and essential workers in the city. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
AS of June 6, 225,291 doses of the anti-COVID-19 vaccines had already been administered in Region 1, out of which 170,738 were used as first dose and 54,553 for the second dose, according to the Department of Health-Center for Heath Development 1. Speaking at the virtual presser of PIA Region…
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed an ordinance increasing the monthly honorarium of all 593 barangay tanods in Dagupan by P500, effectively raising their stipend to P1,200 per month. This was provided for in an ordinance proposed by Councilor Celia Lim and co-authored by all councilors present. The present monthly…
DUE TO INITIAL MINOR NEGATIVE EFFECTS MORE than 2,000 persons that were already inoculated with their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine still have to complete their vaccination protocol with the second dose. Department of Health Center for Health Development 1 (DOH-CHD 1) spokesperson Dr. Rheuel Bobis said the hesitant inoculated…
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