DAGUPAN FRONTLINERS TESTED—The city’s government frontliners that included barangay health workers, police officers, garbage collectors, street cleaners are swabbed for specimens for the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test for COVID-19 by the City Heath Office at the Dagupan Astrodome. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
600 FRONTLINERS TO BE COVERED THE Dagupan City government has started its risk-based Covid-19 testing for the city’s frontliners. The city‘s Covid-19 focal person Dr. Ophelia Rivera said the testing will cover some 600 government frontliners in the city that includes barangay health workers, nurses, firemen, rescue personnel, and police…
ALL the barangay chairmen of Calasiao town have been ordered quarantined for 14 days after one of them tested positive for COVID-19 in mass rapid testing of all village heads during a meeting called by the Municipal Local Government Operations Officer (MLGOO) on May 28. Mayor Joseph Arman Bauzon announced in his…
A man from Sual town who acted as a helper of a refrigerated truck that transports fish to Malabon in Metro Manila, became the first confirmed COVID-19 case in his town, and the 42nd case in Pangasinan. The Sual case is one of the only two COVID-19 cases remaining to date…
MASS TESTING OF 847 THE results of the first batch of the Expanded Targeted Testing or mass testing for COVID-19 in Pangasinan conducted by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) is showing an almost 0.1% positive rate. Provincial Health Officer Anna Ma. Teresa De Guzman confirmed on May 27, that out…
SWABBING OF POLICE FRONTLINERS – Police personnel take their swab tests at the Dagupan Astrodome. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ASINGAN CASE RECOVERED UNDER the General Community Quarantine status in Pangasinan and the Modified General Community Quarantine in Dagupan City, one of the three remaining COVID-19 patients in the province recovered from the viral infection and released on May 28. The 29-year old male from Barangay Dupac, Asingan who was earlier diagnosed…
THE third batch of Pangasinenses stranded at the Rosales-Tarlac border, were finally allowed to enter the province and proceed to their destinations after weeks of being denied entry for weeks. PDRRMO Operations Head Patrick Aquino said stranded persons (LSIs) were earlier denied entry by the Philippine National Police (PNP), because…
NUMBER-CODING IN THE CITY – A POSO enforcer flags down a motorist whose plate number was banned in Dagupan’s main streets. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
GCQ PROTOCOL PERSONS who plan to enter the province should first secure a travel authority from the police station of their point of origin because without it, they will not be allowed to enter and will remain stranded at the province’s boundary. This was the warning aired by P/ Colonel…
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