THE Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) headquarters in San Fernando City, La Union is under second indefinite lockdown after five police personnel tested positive for COVID-19. P/Brig. Gen. Rodolfo Azurin Jr, PRO1 director, said the lockdown was made effective September 1 until the results of the 40 policemen who were…
FIVE Modular Smart Houses were procured by the San Carlos City government as an additional isolation facility to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The City Information Office on Tuesday said the procurement was made to further strengthen its response against the onslaught of the virus. “Five Modular Smart Houses will be…
BINALONAN Mayor Ramon Guico Jr. has placed the residence of a new confirmed COVID-19 case in Zone 7, Barangay Dumayat on granular lockdown for two weeks effective Sept. 2. Guico confirmed the new active case as the fourth confirmed COVID-19 case in the town and said the order to place…
THE Primary Health Care Facility (PCF) in Sual town located in Barangay Cauayan was temporarily closed effective 6 p.m. on August 29 on order of Mayor Liseldo Calugay after six of its staff tested positive for COVID-19. Calugay’s E.O. No. 50 cited the need to disinfect and sanitize the facility…
NOT SUICIDAL – The lineman of the Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (sitting on top of the electric post) is not threatening to jump but waiting for his fellow linemen’s signal to complete the new line connection along the highway in Binmaley so he can complete his task. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE beleaguered Department of Education (DepEd) Pangasinan 1 Schools Division Superintendent vehemently denied all the allegations of corruption raised against her by her subordinates and a number of the provincial Board members. At a recent press conference, Superintendent Dr. Shiela Marie Primicias debunked all the issues made public against her…
PUROK II of Barangay Bantayan in Mangaldan was locked down starting August 23 for 14 days, through an executive order signed by Mayor Marilyn Lambino. This was after the five close contacts of the first COVID-19 case from Barangay Bantayan, a 38-year-old male, tested positive in their Reverse Transcription Polymerase…
THE Mapandan municipal government confirmed on August 27 that COVID-19 finally claimed its first patient in the town. Mayor Anthony Penuliar said the first patient, a female resident of Barangay Amanoaoac, has been experiencing flu-like symptoms of the virus and tested positive when she took the reverse transcription test. She…
BRANCH 24 of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) located inside Justice Hall building at Tondaligan Park in Dagupan City was closed from August 24 to September 3 shortly after one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. This was gleaned in the August 23, 2020 memorandum (No. 12-2020) issued by RTC…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan, in its virtual session last August 24, expressed alarm over the rising number of persons being bitten by dogs and cats and the seeming shortage of anti-rabies vaccine injections in public hospitals. This was brought out by Board Member Chinky Perez Tababa who sought the presence of…
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