READY FOR COVID PATIENTS — Since in-classes will not resume during the pandemic, the Dagupan City government will utilize one floor of the Bonuan Boquig National High School as its isolation facility if the surge in cases continues. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan failed to hold its session again last week after two councilors tested COVID-19 positive: ex-officio City Councilor Joshua Bugayong, chairman of the Sangguniang Kabataan Federation, and Councilor Librada Reyna-Macalanda. City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo said Councilor Bugayong is on home quarantine for his mild symptoms of…
LAST week, the Ilocos Center for Health Development (CHD 1) confirmed that one million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in the Ilocos region since the vaccine rollout was started five months ago. Specifically, 1,006,401 of eligible population were inoculated as of Aug 25 out of which 269,408 have already…
THE Ilocos Center for Health Development (CHD 1) reminded persons vaccinated with Gamaleya Sputnik V vaccine as firsts dose should not consider being inoculated with other brands for their second dose. CHD 1 COVID-19 focal person Dr. Rheuel Bobis issued the warning following the delayed delivery of additional Sputnik V…
FLOODED BARANGAY – Residents of Barangay Lasip in Calasiao town are learning to cope with their situation, seeing their community flooded with each high tide. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
WITH 304 active cases registered in Dagupan as of August 18, some barangay officials in the city have expressed hope that Mayor Brian Lim will finally adopt granular lockdowns of sitios and streets where many of the COVID-19 cases are located as a policy. The growing clamor was raised after…
8 HEALTH WORKERS INFECTED EIGHT health workers working in different hospitals in Dagupan City were confirmed by Dagupan City mayor Marc Brian Lim on Wednesday, August 18, to have been infected with COVID-19 virus. In his message to the city Wednesday afternoon, he said the more the city’s health workers…
BACK TO VIRTUAL SESSIONS MEMBERS of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP0, including Vice Mayor Dan Bryan Kua), placed themselves in quarantine after they were exposed to one of their colleagues who turned positive for COVID-19. City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo said that based from Councilor Librada Reyna-Macalanda’s post on her Facebook account, she…
THE Philippine Red Cross-Pangasinan Chapter already tested more than 6,000 persons in Pangasinan through its Saliva Reverse Transcript-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) testing. Krismar Gren Brillantes, PRC-Pangasinan Chapter officer-in-charge, said the number is aside from 2,000 others who availed of the organization’s RT-PCR swab test. Brillantes said it is a positive…
SEVERAL offices of the Calasiao municipal government, including the public market area, were temporarily closed on order of Mayor Joseph Arman Bauzon due to the continuous spike in COVID-19 cases, among them are town government employees. Per Bauzon’s Executive Order No. 105, series of 2021, liquor ban was also imposed…
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