STA. BARBARA is no longer ranked as having the second highest number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan but Lingayen. As of October 22, the tally of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) shows Lingayen behind Dagupan in the number of COVID-19 cases at 31 as of 6 p.m. on October…
THE Lingayen government, headed by Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, is considering a localized lockdown in some barangays due to increasing number of residents that tested positive for COVID-19. Lingayen is among the five towns in the province with the highest number of COVID-19 cases — with 31 recorded cases, according to…
SOME 1,526 local residents in the province were swabbed during the four-day aggressive community mass testing conducted by the National Task Force of the Inter-Agency Task Force in the Management of Infectious Disease (IATF), in partnership with the Pangasinan provincial government from October 19 to 22. Pangasinan was one of…
ALL ABOUT DRUNK DRIVING – A bystander looks in wonderment about how a truck can suffer so much damage along Perez Blvd., a busy commercial street in Dagupan City. The drunk driver hits two posts at a high speed. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
COVID-19 TREND IN PANGASINAN THERE appears some good news in the war vs. COVID-19 in Pangasinan. There were only 137 new confirmed cases (October 9-16) while 180 patients have recovered in the same period, and only nine died over a six-day period. The downtrend in COVID-19 cases was confirmed when…
TOTAL active cases in Dagupan is now down to 88 from 91 as of 9 p. m. on October 15, according to Dagupan City’s Public Information Office (PIO). This as three more COVID-19 patients recovered, raising the number of patients that recovered from the disease to 216 while the total…
THE provincial government of Pangasinan earned another feather in its cap after being adjudged as among the Top 10 “Employers of the Year” in the world for the Investors in People (IIP) Awards 2020. The recognition was earned when the provincial government under the stewardship of Gov. Amado I. Espino…
IT is possible that the provincial government is on its way to flattening the curve when no new confirmed COVID-19 case, and no new confirmed death was reported over a 12-hour period last October 14. This was gleaned from the monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO). As of 9:00…
DUE to the noted spike in COVID- 19 cases in the town, the local government of Anda ordered the town to be placed under the 14-day Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) starting Wednesday, Oct. 14. But Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said such a declaration needs approval of…
NO town in Pangasinan can now be considered as having no case of COVID-19 since the President declared a Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine after Dasol finally registered its first ever case last October 10. A 62-year-old woman from Purok 5 in Barangay Poblacion in Dasol was declared positive for COVID-19…
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