By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 16-day 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games ended last Sunday, August 8, and the accomplishments of our Philippine delegation this year was impressive and laudable. Ever since our national athletes started participating in the quadrennial meet in 1924 Paris, our 19-athletes delegation hauled a record four…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story or an article I read in www.advance-africa.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. THANKSGIVING Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment — to draw a picture of…
A BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW REGION 1 was classified as one of the high-risk areas for COVID-19 in the country last August 6, after it registered six cases of the highly transmittable Delta variant, five in Ilocos Norte and one in Pangasinan. But the level of quarantine classification, in the affected…
DAGUPAN’S VERSION OF VENICE CITY – Residents of Barangay Malued, Sitio Fisheries in Dagupan City, have resorted to using bamboo rafts as their means of mobility inside the community since the onset of the rainy season and worsening high tide this month. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
ONLY MINIMAL INCREASE THE number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan ballooned to 15,733 as 654 new active cases were added from August 6 to 12, effectively raising the total number of active COVID-19 cases in the province to 295. There were only 463 cases that recovered in that span of…
PANGASINENSES finally heaved a sigh of relief after the lone Delta case registered in Pangasinan and all his close contacts turned in negative results in their RT-PCR tests conducted by the Pangasinan Molecular Laboratory on August 10. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Anna de Guzman said the newly arrived 23-year-old seaman,…
THE 23-year-old seaman from Natividad town who was found positive of COVID-19-Delta-variant was considered clinically recovered and allowed to go home to Pangasinan on August 3 after completing his 21-day quarantine and he tested negative in his re-swab test on Monday. Provincial Health Officer Anna de Guzman said that aside…
CASUALTY OF HIGH TIDE – The caretaker of the Independent Cemetery in Dagupan City takes a break while clearing the 20 apartment-type tombs that collapsed after the soil caved in from the series of high tide that hit the area. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
ALTHOUGH there are six cases of Delta variant in Region 1, five in Ilocos Norte and one in Pangasinan, it is still premature to say that there is already local transmission of the strain, particularly in Ilocos Norte, where the number of active COVID-19 cases continues to rise. Dr. Rheuel…
31 NEW CASES CITY Mayor Brian Lim warned different COVID-19 variants, including the highly infectious Delta variant, may already be in Dagupan City given the reported 31 new confirmed cases on August 10, the highest number of new cases registered on a single day this year. Known to be deadlier than…
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