THE quarantine ratio in Pangasinan has significantly improved last week compared to the reported ratio previously as gleaned from the analysis conducted by Wilson Chua, chief operations officer of Bitstop, Inc. based in Dagupan City. Chua said, as of April 20, Sto. Tomas town was the town with the best…
THE Villasis Anti-COVID-19 Task Force lifted the lockdown it earlier imposed on Poblacion Zone V and restored its Modified General Community Quarantine status effective April 20. In a resolution, signed by Roderick R. Mina, executive officer of the VAC-19 task force, approved by Mayor Nonato Abrenica, recalled that on April…
OVER a thousand senior citizens in Dagupan City already received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The City Health Office, as of April 17, 2021, 1,231 senior citizens that registered have been administered their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the vaccination program of the city that started on March 31….
NOTING what many doctors are now saying that COVID-19 is airborne, an inventor from Pozorrubio town maintains the same, the virus being airborne but deviated in one aspect: that virus is actually caused by trillion tons of tiny particles of coal deposited in the atmosphere for ages. Jaime Imbat, inventor…
MULTI-TASKING A BANE AFTER the Sangguniang Panlalawigan appealed to local town and city executives to work for the security of tenure of Barangay Health Workers (BHWs), the latter also sought a review of their present multi-faceted functions and to seek a more streamlined duties to be more effective. This time,…
WHAT PANDEMIC? — A young boy shows his catch using beach seine (kalokor) by the Lingayen beach which continues to be a major source of food and livelihood for fisherfolk in the area. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
WHILE Region 1 remained under the Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) up to April 30, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases recorded in the region has already ballooned to 12,652. This as 170 more new active cases were registered: 55 in Pangasinan, 27 in La Union; 44 in Ilocos Sur, 8…
THERE are still more than 100 beds available for COVID-19 patients in Dagupan if a surge in the number of confirmed cases continues. This was reported to the Sangguniang Panlungsod on April 13 by City Councilor Celia Lim in reaction to reports that the isolation facilities in Dagupan are already overflowing with patients…
THERE are 102 police personnel in full battle gear from the Regional Mobile Force Battalion that arrived in Pangasinan on April 14 to beef up forces manning the 20 border control points into Pangasinan. P/Major Arturo Melchor Jr., information officer of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPO), said the deployment was…
THE Sison municipal government here belied malicious reports that the town will be placed on lockdown. Through its Facebook page on Monday, the local government branded the news circulating on social media about planned lockdown of the whole town as fake and malicious. In refuting the fake news, the Sison…
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