THE provincial government has ordered to close its borders to travelers from the National Capital Region (NCR), and from provinces of Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite and Rizal temporarily since the start of the Holy Week. This new executive order (No. 0027-A) was issued by Gov. Amado Espino III on March 26 which ordered…
THE Calasiao Police Station was ordered closed by Mayor Joseph Bauzon on March 31 for disinfection after its police chief, and 28 other policemen, and one person under PNP custody (PUPC) tested positive for COVID-19 . A message from Police Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand de Asis, Calasiao chief of police, “Covid…
NEVER TOO OLD TO FIGHT COVID – The 97-year old Antonia Cornel Ventenilla of Barangay Poblacion Oeste, one of 289 senior citizens inoculated at the Dagupan City Astrodome, gets her first dose of vaccine from the City Health Office’s team of vaccinators. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE first dose of Sinovac and AztraZeneca vaccines allocated to Region 1’s medical frontliners have been served to 24,362 front line health workers in both public and private hospitals as of March 30. This was revealed by Dr. Rheuel Bobis, medical officer IV and COVID-19 focal person of the Department…
KEEPING WITH RELIGIOUS TRADITION — Roman Catholics belonging to the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese lit candles as they filled the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral while observing the distance protocol for the early morning Easter Sunday mass. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
441st FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY MALACANANG has declared Monday, April 5, a special non-working holiday in Pangasinan to mark the province’s 441st founding anniversary, referred to as Pangasinan Day. Proclamation No. 1126 was signed by Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea, by authority of President Rodrigo Duterte. Malacanang issued the proclamation “to enable the…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has reminded his fellow priests during the renewal of their vows in the Chrism Mass held at the St. John The Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan City on March 31 “not to forget their first love, the Lord”. He said the priest’s parish, his graduate school diploma,…
IN URDANETA, SAN NICOLAS, UMINGAN PANGASINAN is bracing for a renewed upsurge of COVID-19 after three cases of the more transmissible strain of the virus, the B.1.1.7 or the UK variant, were detected while another suspected UK variant and the more lethal South African variant are being investigated in different towns. According to a…
SECOND WITH LOWEST COVID CASES PANGASINAN (including Dagupan) ranks No. 13 among the 14 largest provinces (population) with the most number of COVID cases in the Philippines according to the tracker of the Department of Health (DOH) as of March 24. The latest DOH COVID-19 tracker showed that Pangasinan, the fourth…
DURING HOLY WEEK AS Christians prepare for the traditional Holy Week, Gov. Amado Espino III issued Executive Order No. 0027-2021 enjoining all municipal and city mayors and other local officials in the province to strictly enforce all necessary health protocols and guidelines in their communities in order to prevent the…
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