STILL, OLD CHRISTMAS NORMAL—A couple looks at colorful parols on display that they can hang outside their home to help buoy the traditional Christmas spirit in their neighborhood amid the pandemic. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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186 more new cases, 5 deaths last week
COVID-19 CONTAGION AFTER a week of what appeared to be a positive development in the provincial government’s war vs. COVID-19, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) logged 186 newly confirmed active patients, five of whom died. Last week’s new cases were only 137. The only mitigating factor over the week was the report that 224 COVID-19 […]
376 confirmed, 17 deaths, 250 recovered
DAGUPAN CITY COVID-19 CASES DAGUPAN City has registered the highest death toll for COVID-19 in Pangasinan to date. As of 9 p.m. on October 22, the city of Dagupan already registered 17 deaths from COVID-19 infection, three are believed to be members of a Filipino-Chinese family with a business shop in the city’s downtown area […]
VACCINE FOR MEASLES
VACCINE FOR MEASLES – Family members put their hands together to calm down their baby as the vaccine is administered on her by a nurse at the clinic for the government’s Chikiting Ligtas, ang bakuna ay kontra sa Tigdas program. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
Lingayen dislodges Sta. Barbara as 2nd highest in COVID-19 cases
STA. BARBARA is no longer ranked as having the second highest number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan but Lingayen. As of October 22, the tally of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) shows Lingayen behind Dagupan in the number of COVID-19 cases at 31 as of 6 p.m. on October 22. The capital town has […]
Mayor Bataoil mulls localized lockdowns
THE Lingayen government, headed by Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, is considering a localized lockdown in some barangays due to increasing number of residents that tested positive for COVID-19. Lingayen is among the five towns in the province with the highest number of COVID-19 cases — with 31 recorded cases, according to the town’s health office as […]
Capitol launched aggressive COVID-19 mass testing
SOME 1,526 local residents in the province were swabbed during the four-day aggressive community mass testing conducted by the National Task Force of the Inter-Agency Task Force in the Management of Infectious Disease (IATF), in partnership with the Pangasinan provincial government from October 19 to 22. Pangasinan was one of the pilot areas in the […]
ALL ABOUT DRUNK DRIVING
ALL ABOUT DRUNK DRIVING – A bystander looks in wonderment about how a truck can suffer so much damage along Perez Blvd., a busy commercial street in Dagupan City. The drunk driver hits two posts at a high speed. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
180 cases recovered, only 137 new cases
COVID-19 TREND IN PANGASINAN THERE appears some good news in the war vs. COVID-19 in Pangasinan. There were only 137 new confirmed cases (October 9-16) while 180 patients have recovered in the same period, and only nine died over a six-day period. The downtrend in COVID-19 cases was confirmed when on October 16 at 9:00 […]
Dagupan down to 88 cases, 216 recovered, 16 deaths
TOTAL active cases in Dagupan is now down to 88 from 91 as of 9 p. m. on October 15, according to Dagupan City’s Public Information Office (PIO). This as three more COVID-19 patients recovered, raising the number of patients that recovered from the disease to 216 while the total number of cases recorded in […]