Enhanced Community Health Control SINCE President Duterte has determined that Pangasinan is still a high-risk area but may be reevaluated as low risk by April 30, our provincial government must consider adopting more stringent measures to address the contagion. It is imperative for our provincial government to adopt stricter measures…
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Time to be vigilant, to be optimistic IF the indicators of the latest statistics collated by the Provincial Health Office are what they show, then we have reason to be confident and optimistic that, indeed, Pangasinan is on the way to flattening the curve, finally. The strategy to immediately test…
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Last chance to return to normalcy THE decision of President Duterte to extend the Enhanced Community Quarantine, to mean as placing a town/city or barangay on lockdown, till April 30 was not without data and statistics from the ground. As we have seen, lockdown means stoppage of economic activities, i.e.,…
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A fair warning OUR locally elected officials, from the barangay officials to the mayors, suddenly find themselves in the most enviable positions that they never imagined would happen. They have been tasked by the national government to manage millions of resources to be used to help ensure the success of…
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Technology to the rescue LAST week, The PUNCH received a copy of the presentation of HUAWEI Technology offering its Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution to the hospitals in the country for FREE! It is the same AI that helped Wuhan City, ground zero of COVID-19, successfully flattened the curve and effectively…