CALL TO PRAYER AMID COVID-19 CHURCH bells at the Diocese of Alaminos started to peal for 10 minutes every 6:00 p.m. since March 19 as a call to prayer as a pastoral response to COVID-19 crisis. Bishop Fidelis Layog, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Alaminos wrote in a circular, “Let the Church bells be the sound…
PINOY IMPROVISATION – Personnel at the Dagupan City Health Office improvise face shields made of acetate, foam, tape and garter for city government’s outnumbered front liners to help protect them from possible COVID-19 Infection while attending to patients rushing to them for treatment. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE San Carlos City government started disinfecting operations of public facilities and buildings in a bid to keep the city COVID-19 free. City information officer Jhuliano Nazareno said the disinfection operations to be held in 86 barangays were led by the office of Mayor Julier Resuello, the City Disaster Risk…
THE Regional Center for Health Development 1 of the Department of Health confirmed that while there are 85 Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) in the region, there are still no known COVID-19 case, as of 5:00 p.m. of March 18. Pangasinan is only second to La Union that has the most umber of PUIs at 30 in the region: 11 were admitted to hospitals, 14 under home quarantine and five others…
THERE were less fire incidents and damage recorded so far, to date. According to the provincial fire marshal, Bureau of Fire Protection Supt. Noel Gagalac, only 84 fire incidents were recorded from January to date compared to 85 with fewer structural cases. He said most were grass fires caused by…
FIRE razed to the ground nine houses made of light materials in Barangay Mabanogbog in Urdaneta City on March 15. SFO1 Franklin Corpuz, chief of the Intelligence and Investigation Department of the Bureau of Fire Protection in the city, said the fire started at 11:29 p.m. and was put out at 12:10 a.m. Corpuz said the fire reached second…
MEMBERS of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) will continue to hold weekly sessions after a move to declare a recess for one month in compliance with the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) declared on March 14 by President Rodrigo Duterte, among which requires all residents to stay home, was withdrawn. The councilors mulled the recess option but eventually decided to support…
NOT A HOLD-UP — But it is also not the correct way of checking body temperature of the senior guy with the use of the portable thermo scanner. The scanner is supposed to be at least two-inches away from the forehead. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
MOST of the 150 persons known to have met and mingled with the Filipino-Australian from Pangasinan during a class reunion and a breakfast with classmates on February 22 and 23, have been traced and were confirmed not to have the symptoms of COVID-19. This was confirmed by Dr. Ana de…
WHILE many crowd-drawing activities in the entire country had been cancelled because of COVID-19, the Dagupan Bangus Festival, whose main features is the crowd-drawing “Kalutan ed Dalan” will be staged on April 30 as scheduled. Informed of this, Dr. Rosario Pamintuan, chief of the regional disease surveillance unit of the Department of…
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