STA. Barbara Mayor Joel Delos Santos has lifted the lockdown status of four barangays last October 15 after the number of COVID-19 cases in their villages have dropped. Delos Santos announced in a Facebook post that as per Executive Order No. 75-2020, concurred by the Region 1 Inter-Agency Task Force…
D-DAY FOR DISTANCE LEARNING – Parents of students at the Dagupan City National High School troop to the school to receive modules for blended learning prepared by the students’ teachers. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
EIGHT persons, including an incumbent provincial board member, died last week in what was considered as the biggest upsurge yet of new confirmed active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan, bringing the death toll of the virus so far to 42. This, as 260 more Pangasinenses were infected while 152 other patients…
SEVEN barangays of Sta. Barbara were placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) level while zones and households in seven barangays were isolated for zonal containment following the upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the town. This was ordered by the town’s municipal government after 91 employees of a plant of San Miguel Corporation…
MORE isolation facilities in towns and cities should be opened to meet the continuous surge in the number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan. The alert was raised by Col. Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro of the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…
THE fight against COVID-19 in Pangasinan sprung back to life when 48 patients recovered from the disease and no new confirmed case was reported at 6:00 a.m. on October 9, according to the monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO). This brought to 781 the total number of recovered cases in Pangasinan with 407…
AN intensified zoning containment strategy is being employed by the provincial government to slow down the spread of COVID-19 in the province. According to Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, chief of the Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Office, the strategy involves conducting aggressive contact tracing to curb COVID-19 and to establish…
THE contact-tracing for the sudden surge of COVID-19 infection in Sta. Barbara is posing a big challenge to the Provincial Health Office. This sentiment was expressed by Dr. Anna Teresa de Guzman, provincial health officer, after the town became the epicenter of COVID-19 in Pangasinan overnight. She said it is…
PINAKBET GARDEN — Detainees at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail and members of local media harvest eggplant, tomatoes, chili peppers, water spinach, and okra at the Lingayen plaza for distribution to families in Lingayen. The garden is part of the integrated landscape farming project of Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINAN COVID-19 MONITORING SEVEN persons died anew of COVID-19 in Pangasinan making the number of active cases to 335 as of 9 a.m. on October 2. A 34-year-old woman from Dagupan City with symptoms of sore throat, colds and a body malaise was diagnosed to be positive for COVID-19 and…
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