A 60-year-old man in Lingayen tested positive for COVID-19. A resident of barangay Baay, listed as patient no. 63, was watching for a patient in a hospital, tested positive in his rapid test on October 9, a protocol for hospital watcher. To confirm his situation, he was made to take…
VISITS to the Parasapas Hills, a new and popular tourist destination in San Quintin town, has been suspended effective October 15 to enable the local government to ensure full awareness and compliance of residents and visitors to the health and safety protocols in the area. This was contained in Executive…
THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Region 1 recently conducted orientation for seven batches of newly-hired contact tracers. This two-day training was for the second and third batch of contact tracers. District 2 residents from Aguilar, Binmaley, Bugallon, Labrador, Lingayen and Mangatarem were trained at the Pangasinan Training…
LEADING BY EXAMPLE — Gov. Amado Espino III goes shopping at the Pamanang-Yaman, Produktong Pangasinan a trade show to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) whose businesses were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Capitol Plaza in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
LOGBOOK CHECK-INS RISKY THE practice of business establishments requiring customers to register their personal data using one pen for all to use before entering and result in long queues, prompted the filing of a resolution at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to call on all the establishments to adopt another method because…
AFTER a week of no reported COVID-19 cases, the San Carlos City government recorded two new infections in the city last week. The City Information Office confirmed on Monday, October 5, that the two new cases of COVID-19 in the city are a 53-year-old man in Barangay Lilimasan and a…
THE recent surge in the spread of COVID-19 infection reported in Sta. Barbara town logged 91 new cases after a mass testing was conducted in a plant complex. According to Mayor Joel delos Santos all those who tested positive were workers of a big plant in Barangay Tebag. Most of…
NINE persons who are close contacts of a COVID-19 patient from Balungao town who recently died tested positive for the virus. The town’s Municipal Inter-Agency Task Force announced the results last Wednesday evening, October 7, that the nine were out of 40 persons separately tested on Oct. 3 and Oct….
WHILE DISTANCE EDUCATION IS ON REPAIR and renovation of school buildings in Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte will continue even if the use of classrooms has been suspended and instruction has shifted to distance learning on account of the current pandemic. This implementation of the program for the…
THE Guinness World Records title-holder St. Vincent Ferrer Prayer Park (SVFPP) in Bayambang that draws local and foreign tourists has re-opened on Oct. 8 but only to devotees and visitors from Pangasinan. Only 1,000 people are allowed to enter the park at a time, fill out information sheet honestly, wear…
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