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 city‘s police preventing Asingan residents to enter the city.

Parayno said those that complained to him may have wanted to come to Urdaneta outside of the scheduled days and it is not because the two new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Pangasinan are from Asingan.

Parayno explained that Urdaneta City has scheduled certain days of the week for outsiders to enter Urdaneta as part of the health safety protocol against COVID-19 under the GCQ.

He said all those coming from Asingan, Binalonan and Pozorrubio are scheduled to enter the city on Thursday and Friday, and it was only on Monday, May 18, that tricycles were allowed to operate and commute passengers.

This situation could have been avoided, he said, had the chief of police of Asingan first coordinated with the chief of police of Urdaneta.

Parayno explained that under GCQ, the city of Urdaneta is implementing odd-even number scheme for tricycles, depending on the last digit of their plate numbers.

He stressed that those entering the city proper need to have quarantine passes issued by their respective barangays and whose number must jibe with the last digit of the plate number of the tricycle they are riding.

With issues clarified, Mayor Lopez apologized for the misunderstanding and attributed it to the failure of the Asingan olice chief for failing to coordinate with his counterpart in Urdaneta on the policy regarding tricycles from Asingan entering Urdaneta. (Leonardo Micua)

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