TARGETED mass testing for front liners and high-risk workers by the Sual government continues in earnest in Sual with the help of the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center in Manila. Mayor Liseldo Caiugay underscored the importance of mass testing as it facilitates the speedy identification of cases and the…
LONGING FOR THE OLD DAYS – Parishioners of Catholic churches in Pangasinan feel a wistful longing for the old days when they can freely occupy any pew to pray. Above is a picture of the empty St. John the Evangelist Cathedral during a celebration of a Holy Mass. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TARGETED MASS TESTING THREE more positive cases of COVID-19 were registered in Pangasinan, in addition to the 12 reported in Dagupan City, another in San Carlos City, and one in San Fabian last May 31 and June 1, raising the number of active coronavirus cases in the province to 17 as…
14 FRONTLINERS TEST POSITIVE THE Dagupan City government decided to maintain its General Community Quarantine (GCQ) status after 14 of its frontliners tested positive in recent Risk-based Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Tests conducted with the help of the Philippine Red Cross (PRC). The new infections were among the 586 test…
ALAMINOS City has confirmed that there are two COVID-19 cases as of June 4 prompting the local government to place two barangays where they live on total lockdown from June 4 to 15. A public advisory posted by the Alaminos government on its Facebook page said that a resident of…
BICYCLE LANE – Bikers in Dagupan City ride leisurely along the road shoulder of the De Venecia Highway projected as bicycle lane identified by the city government and the DPWH. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
TO encourage Dagupeños to adopt bicycles as a mode of transportation when the city transitions to “new normal”, the Sangguniang Panlungsod is mulling a “Bicycle Ordinance of Dagupan City”. Proposed by Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, the measure cites the importance of riding bicycles as a much safer mode of mobility in this time of…
LGUs REMINDED OF GCQ GUIDELINES PANGASINAN residents are mostly compliant with the guidelines set by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) as demonstrated by the wearing of facemasks and social-physical distancing in all parts of the province under the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) protocol. This was the observation shared by P/Colonel…
THE residents of Calasiao heaved a sigh of relief on learning that the barangay chairman whose Rapid Test showed him symptomatic, finally tested negative of COVID-19. Dr. Arturo Jesus de Vera, the municipal health officer, said the results of the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) test on his throat…
CALASIAO’S LONE CASE THE family and residents of the compound in Barangay Bued in Calasiao where the town’s lone COVID-19 case lives have been placed on strict home quarantine by the Municipal Health Office. The 43-year old female front liner in Dagupan tested positive together with her 13 co-workers, during a recent mass…
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