TRANSMISSION of COVID-19 has significantly slowed down in Pangasinan for the past four weeks on account of the strong response by local governments led by Governor Amado Espino III and the cooperation of the people by following all the safety and health protocols prescribed by authorities.

This was bared by P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, who said that based on the latest monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) led by Dr. Anna de Guzman, the number of active COVID-19 cases was down to only 159 as of 9:00 a.m. on December 1.

As a matter of fact, the number of active COVID-19 cases was further down to 141 cases on December 2 and 136 as of 9:00 a.m. on December 3.

In a talk over radio station DWCM Aksyon Radyo Dagupan, Maranan attributed the slowdown of COVID-19 transmission to the excellent handling by the provincial government of the continuing war against the virus which impressed Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año three weeks ago.

He also credited the support of the provincial IATF to the initiatives of the provincial government like the continuing mass testing that was stepped up upon the recommendation of the PHO, with the concurrence of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF).

Records showed that as of 9:00 a.m. on December 3, the 136 remaining active cases, still confined and placed under isolation in hospitals and LGU facilities, is 85 percent lower than the 457 cases registered sometime in October, the highest number of active cases recorded in the province so far.

Overall, the 2,179 cases registered in Pangasinan, at least 1,952 had recovered and 91 have died, five of whom died alone from November 29 to December 2.

From the 2,179 cases, 1,659 were from the 47 towns and cities of the province while 529 were from Dagupan City.

The new deaths in the province were: (December 2) A 25-year-old man from Bayambang and a 73-year-old woman from Dagupan City; (December 1) a 77-year-old man from Mangaldan; (November 30) A 72-year-old man in Dagupan; and (November 29) A 75-year-old man in Rosales.

Meanwhile, P/Lt. Colonel Luis Ventura, chief of police of Dagupan City, reported to Maranan that he had deployed policemen at the Quintos Bridge at night to look out for people hanging in there without face masks and face shields and violating physical and social distancing. (Leonardo Micua)

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