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…
WHILE more city residents are happily turning to being plan-‘titos’-plan‘titas’ staying home in this time of COVID-19 pandemic, they must know that the very pleasant recreation also poses risks to health of persons in their households. According to Dagupan Councilor Dennis Canto, chairman on the committee on health of Sangguniang…
LAND OF THE WORLD’S BEST ROCK SALT – A salt bed worker in Dasol town in Pangasinan prepares to haul harvested rock salt on woven basket for delivery to suppliers. Dasol’s salt has since become a popular household brand in urban cities here and overseas for its nutrient. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
34 AS OF MARCH 19 WHILE only nine positive cases were logged on March 10 and 11, the number of active cases in Dagupan has risen to 34 in just one week as of March 19, showing a slight resurgence of COVID-19. The number exceeded the tally registered on March 1 at 26 which was down to 20 and 18 on March 2 and…
A FORMER city mayor and the incumbent vice mayor of Alaminos have tested positive for COVID-19. Former Mayor Arthur Celeste confirmed on his Facebook page on March 17 that his RT-PCR test showed he was positive for COVID-19 despite his doubled efforts to be careful and following minimum health standards,…
LIFE REFLECTION DURING COVID-19 SINCE that almost fatal COVD-19 infection that hit both the Bayambang mayor and his wife, a life reflection dawned on Niña Jose-Quiambao, wife of Mayor Cezar Quiambao and shared it in a Facebook post on March 16. Narrating how their traumatic journey started at the start…
TIGHT SECURITY FOR VACCINES – All deliveries of vaccines to any point in Pangasinan are well secured by a team of heavily armed policemen, just like the delivery of the Sinovac vaccines to Region1 Medical Center last week as shown above. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
AS of March 19, some 3,775 medical frontliners in Dagupan City received their allotted first dose of vaccines that arrived in the city two weeks ago. Of the number, 814 were vaccinated at the central vaccination center of the city at the People’s Astrodome. As the vaccines initially allocated to Dagupan were about to run out,…
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