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Technology to the rescue LAST week, The PUNCH received a copy of the presentation of HUAWEI Technology offering its Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution to the hospitals in the country for FREE! It is the same AI that helped Wuhan City, ground zero of COVID-19, successfully flattened the curve and effectively stopped community transmission of the […]
BUSTLING CITY GONE
BUSTLING CITY GONE – A.B. Fernandez Ave., Dagupan City’s main commercial district, usually crowded with vehicles and shoppers, is virtually a ghost town at 6p.m. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
COVID-19: 12 Confirmed cases, two PUIs died
PANGASINAN UPDATES AS of 9 am, today (Sunday), updates from the Pangasinan Provincial Health Office listed 12 confirmed COVID-19 cases, four of whom had died, 48 patients under investigation (PUI), 18 had been admitted and under treatment, and 28 others had been discharged. Two had died in confinement, one of whom died before the results of […]
Pangasinan on Extreme ECQ till March 31
THE province is no longer simply under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) but as Extreme Enhanced Quarantine (EECQ) from March 23 to 31. Governor Amado Espino III issued E.O.No. 0015-2020 after receiving the report that two persons: one from Rosales and another from Bayambang, died, while two, both from Malasiqui, are being treated at the Pangasinan Provincial […]
SPOT THE MISTAKE
SPOT THE MISTAKE – A Dagupan POSO strikes a pose as if threatening to shoot a rider as he takes the latter’s body temperature with a scanner. (The PUNCH notes a mistake of POSO enforcer in implementing standard procedures in the photo.) (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
2 COVID-19 patients in stable condition
AS of March 25, the two persons in Malasiqui town found positive of COVID-19 and presently confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in Barangay Bolingit, San Carlos City, are already in stable condition. This was disclosed by Dr. Cielo Almoite, assistant provincial health officer, who earlier confirmed that two of the original four persons in Pangasinan found […]
Espino to DOH: Give us test kits now
THE provincial government has asked the national government to start providing test kits to the province to check and validate increasing suspected cases. Governor Amado Espino III said the test kits will enable the provincial government to test as many so that persons positive or symptomatic of the virus can be immediately isolated and prevent contagion. […]