THE Pangasinan Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force recommended last week to place ten towns and two cities in the province under a two-week lockdown to curb the rising COVID-19 cases after Pangasinan logged 344 new active COVID-19 new case, in a one day, the highest since the pandemic started. Recommended to…
ONLY 1 BARANGAY COVID-FREE THE COVID-19 situation in Dagupan City is alarming health officials after it registered a record high of 54 new cases on August 24, the biggest surge in a single day since the contagion began, raising its active cases that day to a new high of 404,…
THE provincial government has imposed a new set of curfew hours, in a bid to curb the increasing infection of the COVID-19 in the province effective August 24. In his Executive Order No. 0090-2021 issued last Monday, Governor Amado Espino III ordered the province-wide curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00…
THE list of municipalities and cities in Pangasinan classified by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 (DOH-CHD1) as high risk to critical risk for COVID-19 has been expanded from 18 to 23. DOH-CHD 1 said in the original list of local government units were the cities of Dagupan,…
JUST for a week, the number of active COVID-19 patients in Pangasinan soared to a new high of 2,492 on August 26, from 1,169 last August 19, marking the biggest surge of cases yet in a single week since the start of the contagion last year. Records showed that from August…
Photos and short story by Art G. Valenzuela With positivity, our SUNDAY PUNCH online and this contributor always look forward to nice things in life. I am sure you, too, are longing to tour the countryside once more and enjoy a breathtaking sunset in an another place “where two souls…
CLOSED FOR SURGE PLAN A — The Region1 Medical Center’s Out-Patient Department is closed to give way and prioritize treatment of COVID-19 patients since the occupancy of the hospital’s 120 beds reserved for COVID cases reached 100% occupancy. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
‘SURGE PLAN A’ IMPLEMENTED THE Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City will start to implement its Surge Plan A this week after its 120-bed isolation facility for COVID-19 patients has reached 100% occupancy rate last week due to the continuous rise of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan. According to Dr….
MORE THAN 150% SURGE THE continued surged in COVID-19 cases, already averaging 600-800 cases daily, is becoming as serious concern for the Ilocos Center for Health Development (CHD 1). CHD 1 COVID-19 focal person Dr. Rheuel Bobis said the new average, up from a 300 daily average in previous months,…
TOTAL LOCKDOWN REJECTED THE Calasiao local government did not agree with the recommendation of the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) to place the town under a two-week lockdown. In an interview over Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan, Mayor Joseph Arman Bauzon said the municipal government will implement granular lockdown instead in areas…
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