NEW 400 CASES, 364 RECOVER PANGASINAN may finally be on the threshold of stopping the COVID-19 contagion with the encouraging trend showing the wide gap between the number of new confirmed cases and the number of patients that recover continues to narrow down. This is the common consensus of health experts…
COVID UPDATE AS OF APR 22 THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported 430 new confirmed cases in the province for the seven-day period (April 16 – 22) and a high rate of recoveries at 354, but 12 deaths were registered. The update from the Provincial Health Office (PHO) brought the…
AS NCR+ CASES CONTINUE TO SURGE REACTING to the banner headline of the SUNDAY PUNCH’S April 11 issue that NCR COVID-19 patients are already being confined in Dagupan City hospitals, Second District Board Member Von Mark Mendoza asked if the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases…
IN spite of warning from the Region’s DOH that COVID-19 positives from the National Capital Region (NCR+) cannot enter region’s hospitals bubble without permission from the local IATFs, and despite tight security by the police on all border control points of Pangasinan, many were already accommodated in big hospitals in…
REPUDIATED INVITATION TO TONDALIGAN – Dagupan residents and visitors stayed away from the Tondaligan Beach on Easter Sunday despite repeated encouragement from Mayor Brian Lim to patronize the beach during the Holy Week for the benefit of vendors he approved to do business in spite of a surge in COVID…
44 TOWNS, CITIES INFECTED THE number of active cases in Pangasinan again nearly breached 500 mark in the new surge of COVID-19 in Pangasinan even as authorities are preventing travelers from the National Capital Region (NCR+) from entering the province. As of April 2 (Good Friday), Pangasinan already logged in…
210 NEW CASES IN R-1; 38 IN PANGASINAN AS of April 1, Maundy Thursday, Region 1 registered already logged 1,727 active COVID-19 cases and the region is bracing itself for a new spike in the contagion as shown by statistics released by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1….
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)
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