IN spite of warning from the Region’s DOH that COVID-19 positives from the National Capital Region (NCR+) cannot enter region’s hospitals bubble without permission from the local IATFs, and despite tight security by the police on all border control points of Pangasinan, many were already accommodated in big hospitals in…

REPUDIATED INVITATION TO TONDALIGAN – Dagupan residents and visitors stayed away from the Tondaligan Beach on Easter Sunday despite repeated encouragement from Mayor Brian Lim to patronize the beach during the Holy Week for the benefit of vendors he approved to do business in spite of a surge in COVID…
44 TOWNS, CITIES INFECTED THE number of active cases in Pangasinan again nearly breached 500 mark in the new surge of COVID-19 in Pangasinan even as authorities are preventing travelers from the National Capital Region (NCR+) from entering the province. As of April 2 (Good Friday), Pangasinan already logged in…
210 NEW CASES IN R-1; 38 IN PANGASINAN AS of April 1, Maundy Thursday, Region 1 registered already logged 1,727 active COVID-19 cases and the region is bracing itself for a new spike in the contagion as shown by statistics released by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1….
THE provincial government has ordered to close its borders to travelers from the National Capital Region (NCR), and from provinces of Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite and Rizal temporarily since the start of the Holy Week. This new executive order (No. 0027-A) was issued by Gov. Amado Espino III on March 26 which ordered…
THE Calasiao Police Station was ordered closed by Mayor Joseph Bauzon on March 31 for disinfection after its police chief, and 28 other policemen, and one person under PNP custody (PUPC) tested positive for COVID-19 . A message from Police Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand de Asis, Calasiao chief of police, “Covid…

NEVER TOO OLD TO FIGHT COVID – The 97-year old Antonia Cornel Ventenilla of Barangay Poblacion Oeste, one of 289 senior citizens inoculated at the Dagupan City Astrodome, gets her first dose of vaccine from the City Health Office’s team of vaccinators. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE first dose of Sinovac and AztraZeneca vaccines allocated to Region 1’s medical frontliners have been served to 24,362 front line health workers in both public and private hospitals as of March 30. This was revealed by Dr. Rheuel Bobis, medical officer IV and COVID-19 focal person of the Department…

KEEPING WITH RELIGIOUS TRADITION — Roman Catholics belonging to the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese lit candles as they filled the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral while observing the distance protocol for the early morning Easter Sunday mass. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
441st FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY MALACANANG has declared Monday, April 5, a special non-working holiday in Pangasinan to mark the province’s 441st founding anniversary, referred to as Pangasinan Day. Proclamation No. 1126 was signed by Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea, by authority of President Rodrigo Duterte. Malacanang issued the proclamation “to enable the…