THREAT OF LOCAL TRANSMISSION THREE more patients died in Pangasinan, raising the number of COVID-19 deaths in the whole province to 21 as of September 10, according to the monitoring conducted by the Provincial Health Office (PHO). Meanwhile, 50 patients recovered against 48 newly confirmed prompting Dr. Anna de Guzman,…
A 55-year-old woman in Dagupan City is the latest fatality here due to COVID-19, the fourth in the city, while four new cases have been confirmed on September 9. The city’s information office identified the latest victim as a Filipina-Chinese businesswoman who owns a shop in the city’s main commercial…
WARRANTS of arrest have been issued by Regional Trial Court Judge Magnolia Cayetano of Branch 56 in San Carlos City against the 24 suspects in the attempted murder of former Rep. Amado Espino Jr. and the murder of his driver and police escort. Of the 24 suspects, four were issued…
OPERATIVES of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), reinforced by the Pangasinan police arrested five persons in a buy-bust operation and raid of a suspected drug den in Barangay Herrero-Perez in Dagupan City. Retchie Camacho, PDEA-Pangasinan assistant provincial officer and operation team leader, identified the suspects as Fidel de Gracia,…
AN 85-year-old man who escaped from his isolation room at the Region 1 Medical Center when he tested positive for COVID-19, attempted to burn down a town’s isolation facility last September 6 where he was held. The patient from Barangay Gueset Norte in San Manuel town attempted to burn a…
THERE are still 22 or 46 percent of the 48 towns and cities of Pangasinan that are COVID-19-free while 26 remain infected. This was gleaned from the COVID-19 tracker released by the Provincial Information Office on September 8. The COVID-19 free towns are Aguilar, Alcala, Anda, Balungao, Bani, Bugallon, Burgos,…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) announced the new set of designated chiefs of police in nine towns and two cities following the reshuffling of officers nationwide. According to P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, PPPO director, the newly installed police chiefs are: P/Lt. Col. Haron Rasid (Binmaley), P/Lt. Col. Luis Ventura Jr….
VIRTUAL SESSION FOR FACE SHIELDS – Dagupan City Vice Mayor sits alone inside the sangunian session hall, presiding over the regular session last week while all the councilors are in their homes or offices carrying on with the parliamentary procedure in adopting the ordinance requiring mandatory wearing of face shields. (Editors’ Note: Only two wore…
LATEST PROVINCIAL UPDATE PANGASINAN entered its most crucial period during the pandemic after four COVID-19 patients died last week, effectively raising the death toll in the province to 18. It happened at a time when the number of active cases still confined in various hospitals was nearing the century mark…
ALL persons entering enclosed public spaces, places of work (government offices, hospitals, drug stores, et.) commercial establishments (malls, supermarkets and public markets, remittance centers, banks, etc.) and riding public transportation in Dagupan City are now required to wear face masks and face shields. The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan, in its…
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