REVERSION TO ECQ UNLIKELY PANGASINAN, with 83 active COVID-19 cases as of July 29, has not reached the critical zone so it is very unlikely that it would be reverted to Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) status. Based on the zoning containment classification strategy released by the National Task Force for…
THE director of the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City has made an appeal to local chief executives in Pangasinan to review or revisit present provisions of quarantine measures and seek to strengthen these to address the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the province. Dr. Joseph Roland Mejia…
OF the 6,856 repatriated Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from Region 1 that have returned, 3,905 are from Pangasinan. This was bared by Gerardo Rimorin, regional director of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) in Region 1, during the Virtual KBP Forum last Thursday. Other OFW returnees were 1,191 from La Union,…
THE Pangasinan Police Provincial Office at Camp Antonio Sison was on lockdown starting July 17 for disinfection after 15 policemen tested positive in their Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction test for COVID-19. P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, said all the 15 policemen, except one who was suffering from a…
POLICE checkpoints and control points will still continue even if Pangasinan has already transitioned to Modified General Community Quarantine. P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police provincial director, told the Virtual KBP Forum on Thursday, it will continue because the checkpoints and border control points are strong deterrents not only against violators of…
THE number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan since the start of the contagion has ballooned to 219 as of July 31, 2020, 76 of whom considered active and still confined but notably, there has been a high rate of recovery among positive cases. To date, 133 have recovered, 11 died…
DAGUPAN BANGUS HARVEST ON A RAINY DAY — Farmworkers harvest milkfish from a pond on a rainy afternoon. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
106 RECOVERED, 11 DIED AFTER registering zero COVID-19 death for 108 straight days, Pangasinan recorded two new fatalities last July 21 and 23 when a 69-year-old male from Barangay San Jose, Labrador, and a 57-year-old male from Poblacion Oeste, Dagupan City died respectively. The Provincial Health Office (PHO) said the 69-year…
PANGASINAN, which remains under the Modified General Community Quarantine and recently classified by the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases as a low-risk area, still has the lowest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases among the top 10 most populous provinces in the Philippines as of July 19, 2020. According…
AS of July 23, only 10 of the 44 towns of Pangasinan are considered COVID-19- free. This was confirmed the Provincial Health Office (PHO). The towns without any single COVID-19 case so far are Anda, Bolinao, Dasol, Aguilar, Alcala, Mangaldan, Mapandan, Villasis, Balungao and Tayug. Meanwhile, the province, including Dagupan…
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