CONTAGION IN PANGASINAN THE fresh surge of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan after the holiday season was kept at bay by the high number of recovered infected patients as gleaned from the records shared by the Provincial Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (PESU) of the Provincial Health Office from January 14 to 27….
IT’S THE YEAR OF THE TIGER— A sales lady fixes her display of the Chinese zodiac sign for 2022. The tiger is known as the king of beasts and is associated with strength exorcising evils, and bravery. Happy Chinese New Year! (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution expressing its disappointment and disgust over the disinformation posted by the city’s Public Information Office (PIO) in connection with the delay in the passage of the city’s 2022 annual budget. Resolution No. 7893-2022 sponsored by Councilors Luis Samson Jr., Michael Fernandez, Joshua…
DAGUPAN City has reportedly achieved its herd immunity against COVID-19 on Tuesday, January 25, local health authorities said. The City Health Office released its data, through the Dagupan City Public Information Office (PIO), showed that as of Tuesday, January 25, 129,586 individuals in Dagupan City, or 101.75 percent of the…
ALL town and city election officers in Pangasinan, except for four, have been reshuffled in their assignments in a move by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in the province in preparation for the May polls. Urdaneta City Election Officer Nathaniel Siaden told the Kapihan sa PIA (Philippine Information Agency) that…
LOLO NARDING’S 10 ‘KAING’ OF MANGOES AN amicable settlement with an apology and a plea for forgiveness from the 80-year-old man whose case for allegedly stealing some 10 kaing of mangoes went viral in social media last week. Lawyer James Fernandez of the Public Attorney’s Office in Urdaneta City said…
THE SIGNS OF THE TIME – The driver of a commuter bus drives nonchalantly as his passengers sit comfortably, confident that everyone inside the bus are vaccinated. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
A TOP official of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 warned the public against underestimating the Omicron variant’s reported mild symptoms. Dr. Rheuel Bolbis, Medical Officer IV and COVID-19 focal person in Region 1, said there are clinical evidence that Omicron variant can lead to severe and critical…
DAGUPAN City and Pangasinan are among the 22 areas outside Metro Manila being closely monitored for their levels of COVID infection, Malacañang said on Wednesday evening. This was bared in a press briefing by acting presidential spokesperson Karlo Nograles, who said national Inter-Agency Task Force are already closely coordinating with…
ALL the 443 employees at the Lingayen local government tested negative in the recently conducted drug tests. The Lingayen Information Office said those that took the tests conducted by the Municipal Health Office included municipal officials, permanent, casual and Job Order employees. It may be recalled that three days before…
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