PANDEMIC IN PANGASINAN COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan spurted with 505 new confirmed cases but this was kept at bay by the bigger number of patients recovering pegged at 692 as gleaned from the monitoring conducted by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) from July 23 to 29. This as COVID-19 cases continue to…
THE recent unusual series of flooding in Dagupan City caused by high tide has prompted the Sagguniang Panlungsod to ask the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Coastal Research and Development Center (CRDC) Research Center in Batac, Ilocos Norte to study and make recommendations on the experienced changes in the…
THE president of the Pangasinan Mayors’ League said the President’s sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) was modest but impactful. Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, president of the league, said the President’s SONA not only cited the government’s response and remaining courses of action to the COVID-19 pandemic…
NO FEAR OF LEPTOSPIROSIS – Teens in Brgy. Bacayao Sur in Dagupan walk through the flooded barangay road unaware that they could be infected with leptospirosis. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
AT 11:15 a.m. on July 28, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (NDRRMC) sent a text message that warned about orange rainfall that will be experienced in Pangasinan and alerted residents about the threat of heavy rains and soil erosion. A day earlier, the City Disaster Risk Reduction…
THE total population of the Ilocos region has reached 5,301,139, based on the result of the recently concluded 2020 Census of Population and Housing. Atty. Sheila de Guzman, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Region 1 officer-in-charge, said the total population of the region increased on an annual average of 1.13 percent…
ISLAND CATHEDRAL – At the height of the high tide in Dagupan, the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral appears to be isolated in the middle of a lake. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
GOOD FOR SAN ROQUE DAM THE Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) considers the monsoon rains enhanced by Typhoon Fabian experienced last week in Pangasinan may have caused some damage to farmlands but it served to fill the San Roque Dam’s water reserve. PDRRMO operations center officer Shallom…
ALARMED by the entry into the country of the Delta variant, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan called back officials of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases IATF-EID and the Provincial Health Office for an update on the status of Delta variant of COVID-19 contagion in the…
SOME 607 essential workers belonging to the A4 priority group in Region 1 have been fully vaccinated. This was confirmed by Ilocos Region Center for Health Development’s (CHD-1) Dr. Rheuel Bobis, focal person for COVID-19 last Sunday, July 25, based on reports from local government units in the region after…
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