AS COVID-19 CASES CONTINUE TO SOAR PANGASINAN detected 10 new confirmed cases of Delta variant of COVID-19 based on the Sept. 15 results released by the Philippine Genome Center through the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1. Eight cases were logged in Dagupan City and one each in San Manuel…

‘NO MOVEMENT DAY’ WEEKLY OBSERVANCE of a “no movement day” once a week and the reinstatement of market schedules as a well as the issuance of quarantine passes are among the salient provisions   imposed by Governor Amado Espino III when Pangasinan was placed under the higher General Community Quarantine…

ALLEGED MISUSE OF COVID-19 IRM FUNDS AT the instance of the Department of Justice, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) District Office in Dagupan City filed complaints at the Office of Ombudsman in Quezon City on September 1 against 15 identified officials of PhilHealth  in main office and  five in…

DAGUPAN LOGS 204 NEW CASES THE province lost 15 ‘kabaleyans’ to COVID-19 on August 24 as the infection surged with 344 new active cases. In its update that day, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported 27 cases higher than Monday’s 317 new cases. Dagupan City logged 204 new active cases,…

723 NEW ACTIVE CASES EVEN without any official confirmation that community transmission of the Delta variant is happening in Pangasinan, COVID-19 cases pole-vaulted anew last week chalking up 16,466 cases, with 14,843 recovered while 454 had died. The increase was seen on account of 723 more new confirmed cases logged…

A BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW REGION 1 was classified as one of the high-risk areas for COVID-19 in the country last August 6, after it registered six cases of the highly transmittable Delta variant, five in Ilocos Norte and one in Pangasinan. But the level of quarantine classification, in the affected…

FROM HIGH RISKS TO CRITICAL RISKS   FIFTY-four towns and cities in Region 1 earlier classified as high risk areas were elevated to critical risk areas status after 19 more high risk areas for COVID-19 were added based on an advisory dated August 3, 2021 issued by Regional Director Valeriano…

CAPITOL URGES VIGILANCE WHILE one Delta variant has been detected in Ilocos Norte as of last week, and pending results of investigations, there is still no confirmation if a local transmission of the variant has happened in Pangasinan or in any province in the region. This was affirmed by Dr….

TEN IDENTIFIED IN PANGASINAN DUE to the continuing spike of COVID-19 cases, 54 towns and cities in Region 1 were recently classified as high risk areas by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 (DOH-CHD 1). Dr. Rheuel Bobis, COVID-19 focal person in Region 1 and spokesman of DOH-CHD…

MANDATORY USE OF BOCAUE TERMINAL THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) passed a resolution urging the National Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to lift the mandatory usage of the North Luzon Express Terminal (NLET) by buses plying the routes from…