ASINGAN Mayor Carlos Lopez Jr. wrote Urdaneta City Mayor Julio Parayno III on May 19 and appealed to Parayno to allow the Asingan residents to purchase foods and medicines and access essential services in Urdaneta. Lopez made the appeal after he received reports from Asingan residents that they were being…
RESIDENTS of Asingan are not being discriminated against or prevented from entering Urdaneta City during the current General Community Quarantine (GCQ), according to Mayor Julio Parayno III of Urdaneta City. This was the assurance of Parayno in response to the appeal of Asingan Mayor Carlos Lopez Jr. who had complained about the…
THE provincial government has concluded the first batch of mass testing with 843 collected throat swab specimen including medical frontliners, law enforcers, mild Persons Under Investigation and High Risk Persons Under Monitoring (PUMs) in the sixteen “hotspot areas” (the cities and municipalities) with recorded Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the province….
TWO Covid-19 Specimen Collection Booths (SCB) were recently delivered to Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City through the efforts of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD), and Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD). Five…
PREVIEW OF GCQ – – Amid relaxed enforcement of ECQ in many parts of Pangasinan, an almost 500-meter long line of vehicles wait to pass through checkpoint along Dagupan City-Calasiao boundary days before the effectivity of General Community Quarantine. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) decided to reduce the duty hours to protect the health of its police force manning the checkpoints in the province amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. PPPO Director Col. Redrico Maranan said the immune system of the police might have already weakened after…
THE command leadership at the Police Regional Office I was recently turned over by P/ Brig. General Joel S. Orduña, who retired on May 8, to P/Brig. General Rodolfo S. Azurin, Jr. The turnover was ordered by P/Maj General Reynaldo G Biay. After the formal turnover, Azurin impressed upon his subordinates…
THE Pangasinan State University (PSU) has adopted a flexible learning system to ensure efficient learning to continue amid the corona virus pandemic. PSU President Dr. Dexter Buted said online classes or alternative mode of teaching to address has been developed in lieu of traditional learning and teaching methods. He said the post–ECQ…
A 25-year-old public school teacher was arrested by operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation – Dagupan District Office (DADO) after he posted a P50-M reward to anyone who can kill President Rodrigo Duterte in his Twitter account on May 5. Atty. Rizaldy Jaymalin, NBI-DADO chief, said Ronnel Mas, a…
PNP Deputy Director for Operations and COVID Shield Commander Police Lt. General Guillermo Eleazar recently checked the border checkpoints in Rosales and Pozorrubio from TPLEX. Eleazar reminded personnel at checkpoints that only authorized persons outside the residence (APOR) i.e., food and drug provider, medical and security services can pass through….
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