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…
COVID-19 cases are again on the rise in Pangasinan but the situation remains manageable unlike the current surge being experienced by the National Capital Region. Speaking during the Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) on March 22, Rhodyn L. Oro of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for Emerging Infectious…
SLIGHT SURGE IN PANGASINAN AS Pangasinan braces for the Holy Week, more active COVID-19 cases were reported by the Provincial Health Office (PHO): 259 cases as of March 25 (up from 147 on March 17). Of the 259 active cases recorded, 32 were from Dagupan, an independent component city of…
SURGE EXPECTED AFTER HOLY WEEK WITH indicators of a rising trend in active COVID cases again, the numbers are expected to spike anew in Dagupan City after it announced that it will keep the Tondalligan Beach open to residents and visitors for the duration of the Holy Week and new…
© 2025 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
