COVID-19 UPDATE: 7 NEW CASES THE campaign against COVID-19 in Pangasinan is perhaps almost won with the recovery of 67 COVID-19 patients, leaving only eight still confined in different hospitals and isolation facilities, against nine fatalities at the beginning of the pandemic in March. Of the 67 who recovered, 13…
TWO men committed suicide separately over two different reasons. A depressed resident of Barangay Lucao in Dagupan City committed suicide after losing his job. The victim, identified as Renato Diaz, 53 years old, was found inside the family’s sari-sari store by his daughter, sprawled on the floor, lifeless, his head…
NEW COVID-19 CASES TWO residents of Dagupan City who arrived from Metro Manila tested positive for COVID-19. According to the city government’s Public Information Office, a 32-year-old female OFW from Barangay Calmay, was confirmed on June 24 to have tested positive for COVID-19. The patient arrived in the Philippines last…
ILLEGAL drug trading in Pangasinan was also not spared by the quarantine and lockdown protocol since March and suffered a slump in spite of the continued high demand among drug users. This was the indication gleaned from the accomplishment of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) throughout the lockdown period…
DRUG HVTS NABBED – PDEA operatives are on a roll arresting high-value targets in Pangasinan for the past weeks. Last week, it was the turn of Roscius Dadacay and Jim Resuello, both from San Carlos City, to be caught in the unrelenting campaign of PDEA. (Punchphoto by Ahikam Pasion)
OPERATIVES SCORE BIG TWO high-value drug targets were arrested, and P7.4 million worth of illegal drugs were seized by joint operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police in a buy-bust operation in Binmaley. The two suspects Roscius Dadacay, alias Rocious, 44, a businessman of…
THE deadline for the payment of all local taxes, fees and charges authorized and imposed by the provincial government has been extended to June 25, 2020. And all penalties, surcharges will be waived as well. These are provided in Executive Order No. 0033-2020 issued by Governor Amado Espino III on…
PPPO HQ ON LOCKDOWN THE headquarters of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) in Lingayen was placed on lockdown on June 15 when two more policemen, one from Binmaley and the other from San Carlos City, both assigned at the PPPO tested positive for COVID-19 . P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, police…
DANGEROUS DISTANCING IN THE CITY – With no sign of enforcement, bank clients queue on the sidewalk while awaiting their turn to enter the bank without observing prescribed physical distancing unmindful of the risks of infection by COVID-19 to them. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
GOOD news for Sual residents! The first confirmed COVID-19 positive case registered in Sual tested double negative in his last two Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction confirmatory test administered by the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center. The four other COVID-19 positive cases in the town also turned negative in their…
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