Bangus Festival still a go despite COVID-19
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 Health, said the stand of the DOH is to discourage the holding of big events during COVID-19 crisis.
He told the Talakayan sa Kapitolyo on March 10, that Health Secretary Francisco Duque III already issued an advisory discouraging the holding of big events on account of COVID-19, but it is up to the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to determine if an event should push through.
Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Ano is a co-signatory to the advisory.
A report from Dagupan City Hall said the Kalutan ed Dalan iron grills will be linked from the junction of A.B. Fernandez to Burgos Street on to Perez Boulevard.
It was learned, the city government will sell the grills for P3,500.
Dagupan City hall insiders said the Bangus Festival headed by Beep Beep Tan continues to hold meetings, among these with the barangay captains in connection with Street Dancing for the coming Bangus Festival and the holding of the Baratillo and Food Strip, a regular feature of past Bangus Festivals and city fiestas.
Using the slogan, “Ibalik ang Bangus Festival sa dating lugar” the Lim administration is bent on putting up the longest bangus grill event ever.
Pamintuan urged the management of the Bangus Festival and city officials to rethink their decisions in the light of the worsening COVID-19 crisis in the country and given the World Health Organization declaration of COVID-19 as “pandemic.”
Mayor Brian Lim and his technical consultant Redford Erfe-Mejia are currently in the United States to renew the sisterhood agreement with Milpitas City.
Pamintuan cited the cancellation of the Panagbenga Festival in Baguio on order of Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong and the same with the Cordillera Athletic Association (CAAA) Meet.
She cited the cancellation of the Palarong Pambansa and the Region 1 Athletic Association (R1AA) meet, to be hosted by Pangasinan I and the Pangasinan provincial government on order of Education Secretary Leonor Briones. (Leonardo Micua)
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