THE mayor of Binmaley and his wife tested positive for COVID-19. In a message Monday night, August 30, Mayor Simplicio Rosario said he and his wife, Lorna Grace, immediately placed themselves in quarantine in compliance with health protocol. The mayor said he was asymptomatic while his wife was experiencing mild…
SCHOOLROOM EQUIPPED AS ISOLATION FACILITY — Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim inspects one of the hospital beds delivered to the newly constructed East Central Integrated School in Brgy. Mayombo for the conversion of six classrooms into an intermediary quarantine facility for mild COVID-19 cases that can no longer be accommodated in hospitals. (Punchphoto…
THE Ilocos Center for Health and Development (DOH-CHD-1) logged 27 new cases of the more transmissible COVID-19-Delta variant last Monday, August 30, bringing the total to 49 cases in Region 1. DOH-CHD-1 COVID-19 focal person Dr. Rheuel Bobis said the results of the genome sequencing of the 27 cases were…
ALREADY accounting for one Delta variant case, Dagupan registered 279 new cases against 124 recoveries over a seven-day period from August 26 to September 1 to remain the epicenter of the pandemic in Pangasinan. This brought to 531 the number of active cases in Dagupan. The total cases registered to date is…
COVID-19 CASES BREACH 20K THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) confirmed detection of eight new cases of COVID-19- Delta variant last Tuesday, August 31. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Anna de Guzman said the new confirmed Delta cases are being monitored and investigated. She said her office is closely monitoring health status…
PREPARING INTERMEDIARY QUARANTINE FACILITY – Volunteers rush to clean newly constructed classroom of the East Central Integrated School in Dagupan City for expected occupancy by mild COVID-19 cases. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE provincial government is hiring 155 additional healthcare workers to boost the province’s response efforts to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. In a radio interview on Thursday, Gov. Amado Espino III said the new hires will be deployed to the 14 provincial government-run hospitals. “The Provincial Health Office (PHO) has consolidated…
A six-year-old boy died after he was bitten by a cobra in Barangay Carusucan Norte in Asingan on Aug. 29. Leonard Beltran, who had a speech and language impairment, had just eaten lunch and was having a siesta with his dad, Michael Beltran, in their room when the incident happened….
IN the light of increasing number of COVID-19 cases in detection of more Delta variants in the province, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) has tightened its control and monitoring in the province’s border control checkpoints. PPPO director Col. Ronald Gayo said the residents and visitors should expect stricter implementation…
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