ONLY 176 ACTIVE CASES THE number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan continues to decline as only 176 remain active cases confined in hospitals and isolation facilitries as of November 26, compared to 236 on November 19 as gleaned from the monitoring of the Provincial Health Office. For the period November 20 to 26,…
DESPITE the report of the provincial Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) that COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan have dropped by 45 to 46 percent since its peak in October, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan was adamant in its stand not to lift the curfew but agreed to cut it by…
AN armed encounter between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and a faction of the rebel New People’s Army (NPA) took place in the mountainous areas of Mangatarem Tuesday morning. Brigadier General Audrey Pasia, commander of the 702nd Brigade, said his command was tipped off of the presence of…
THE Philippine National Police (PNP) revealed that the movement of rebels from Zambales and recently traced in Mangatarem were already being closely monitored by the Armed Forces days before the armed encounter last Tuesday. P/Col. Redrico Maranan, PNP provincial director, said the NPA’s entry into the province’s border, reported by…
FACE-TO-FACE SYSTEM TO BOOST DISTANCE LEARNING BAYAMBANG’S local government has launched its Community-Based Distance Learning Enhancement Program to help students in Grades 7 to 10 in this time of pandemic through of face-to-face learning. At the launching of the program in Barangay Inanlorenza, Mayor Cezar Quiambao said the enhancement program…
DENGUE cases in Pangasinan have decreased by 53%, according to data gathered by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) from January 1 to November 23, compared to last year’s data for the same period. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said this year dengue recorded only 4,217 cases, against last…
BLUE & WHITE CHRISTMAS — Dagupan City Councilor Celia Lim meets with medical frontliners from different hospitals in Dagupan City in front of the newly installed giant Christmas tree at the city plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FROM A HIGH OF 450 IN OCTOBER THE fight against COVID-19 in Pangasinan has shown it continues to gain headway after the province registered a significant drop in the number of active cases to 246 (as of November 16) from 450, its highest number of cases registered last October. This…
THE local government of Sison has bemoaned The PUNCH’S headline news last week that the town is already the “new epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic”. In a statement dated Nov. 16 posted in its official Facebook page, it said that the actual situation in the municipality of Sison is far from…
NOT RELAXING BUT ADJUSTING IN CHECKPOINTS THE Pangasinan Police already arrested 88,662 persons that violated health and safety protocols since the COVID-19 pandemic started in mid-March this year. This was revealed by P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, during the Question Hour of the virtual session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…
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