WITH 304 active cases registered in Dagupan as of August 18, some barangay officials in the city have expressed hope that Mayor Brian Lim will finally adopt granular lockdowns of sitios and streets where many of the COVID-19 cases are located as a policy. The growing clamor was raised after…
8 HEALTH WORKERS INFECTED EIGHT health workers working in different hospitals in Dagupan City were confirmed by Dagupan City mayor Marc Brian Lim on Wednesday, August 18, to have been infected with COVID-19 virus. In his message to the city Wednesday afternoon, he said the more the city’s health workers…
BACK TO VIRTUAL SESSIONS MEMBERS of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP0, including Vice Mayor Dan Bryan Kua), placed themselves in quarantine after they were exposed to one of their colleagues who turned positive for COVID-19. City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo said that based from Councilor Librada Reyna-Macalanda’s post on her Facebook account, she…
THE Philippine Red Cross-Pangasinan Chapter already tested more than 6,000 persons in Pangasinan through its Saliva Reverse Transcript-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing. Krismar Gren Brillantes, PRC-Pangasinan Chapter officer-in-charge, said the number is aside from 2,000 others who availed of the organization’s RT-PCR swab test. Brillantes said it is a positive…
SEVERAL offices of the Calasiao municipal government, including the public market area, were temporarily closed on order of Mayor Joseph Arman Bauzon due to the continuous spike in COVID-19 cases, among them are town government employees. Per Bauzon’s Executive Order No. 105, series of 2021, liquor ban was also imposed…
DESERTED BEACH – The usually crowded Tondaligan Beach on weekends was deserted without an order from the city government to close the area. City residents are finally wary of COVID-19 infection in public areas. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
SAN JACINTO began conducting off-site vaccination starting on August 18 in order to reach as many senior citizens belonging to the A2 priority group. This was confirmed by Municipal Nurse I Shara Mae Dela Masa who said the off-site vaccination first targeted senior citizens of Barangays Bolo, Labney, Lobong, Awai,…
SOME 800 medical students of Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation in San Carlos City were vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine last week. City Information Officer Jhuliano Nazareno said among the students vaccinated are enrolled in medical courses, particularly clerical students who are to be deployed in hospitals. Also included are those…
SOME 78 trainees out of the 296 police apprentices in Region 1 caught the COVID-19 virus, the Ilocos Police Regional Office (PRO-1) confirmed on Monday. PRO-1 assistant information officer, P/Capt. Karol Elizabeth Baloco said the trainee tested positive in the RT-PCR tests given them as pre-deployment requirement on August 11 and…
THE Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 confirmed that most of those being infected by COVID-19 today are members of the working class who obviously failed to observe the minimum health protocol in their offices and work places. This was the observation of Dr. Rheuel Bobis, chief of the…
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