PANGASINAN and Dagupan City were placed under Alert Level 1 by the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) as fourteen persons in Pangasinan were confined in different government and private hospitals, and at LGU-Isolation Facilities in a fresh upsurge of COVID-19 in the province as of April 24.

The Provincial Information Office (PIO) said the Provincial Health Office reported that of the 14 COVID-19 patients, two of whom were newly confirmed on April 24 and no patient was reported to have recovered.

Four of the patients were in Dagupan City, three in Malasiqui and one each in Agno, Calasiao, Labrador, Rosales, San Carlos City, San Quintin and Umingan.

Nine were admitted at government hospitals, three in private hospitals, and two or 14.29 in LGU-Isolation Facilities: Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City, Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City, LGU-Isolation Facilities in Calasiao and Umingan, Bayambang District Hospital, Eastern Pangasinan District Hospital, Urdaneta District Hospital and Western Pangasinan District Hospital, Blessed Family Doctors General Hospital, Elguera Hospital and Nazareth General Hospital.

Records showed that five of the fresh COVID-19 patients were unvaccinated, four fully vaccinated (two of them with Pfizer, one with Moderna and one with Sinovac vaccines); one with Sinovac and Pfizer booster shots, while two with “not eligible” remarks in their respective records.

The youngest is a nine-month-old baby girl from Poblacion, Malasiqui, while the oldest is a 96-year-old woman from Barangay Lobong in Umingan.

Fortunately, the progress of the disease was slow with a seven-day daily average cases of two from April 18 to 24, seven-day daily average cases from April 11 to 17.

While no death was recorded by PHO on April 24, there were four already COVID-19 deaths since February this year. The fatalities on February 18 were in Urdaneta City, Alcala, Sison and Bolinao.

Three of the four COVID-19 fatalities since February were unvaccinated while one was vaccinated with Johnson & Johnson’s Jensen vaccine.

As of April 24, there were already 47,352 COVID-19 cases registered in Pangasinan. Of these, 42,428 were from the province, and 4,924 from Dagupan City; 45,911 persons recovered from the disease  (41,112 from the province and 4,799 from Dagupan).

Overall, 1,427 have died of COVID-19 in Pangasinan (1,306 from the province and 121  from Dagupan). (Leonardo Micua)

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