THE provincial health office has recommended that tighter controls at border checkpoints be done during the General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) period to prevent further COVID-19 infection in the province. In a PUNCH interview, Provincial Health Officer Ana de Guzman said 17 cases out of the 40 confirmed positive cases contracted…
ALTHOUGH the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan has risen to 40 with the inclusion of a 29-year old male from Barangay Dupac in Asingan (see story COVID-19 resurfaces in Asingan), the four remaining COVID-19 patients from Dagupan confined at the Region 1 Medical Center have all recovered and were set to be…
QUARANTINE VS. SUMMER HEAT — A family defies the Enhanced Community Quarantine protocol that bans swimming in public beaches and rivers and bathes by the river near the Pantal-Lucao bridge. More families swim in the river daily with no one from the city government stopping them from violating the quarantine. (Punchphoto by Willie…
IN view of the coming Typhoon ‘Ambo’ and while COVID-19 pandemic is still raging, Gov. Amado Espino III directed all Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Councils (LDRRMCs) to review and prepare all protocols in Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) plans and disaster management plans. He issued Memorandum No. 2020-01 in his…
TWO days prior to the lifting of the enhanced community quarantine in Pangasinan, a confirmed COVID-19 case was been recorded in Asingan town. In his Facebook post, Asingan Mayor Carlos Lopez Jr., said the newly recorded case is a 29-year-old APOR (Authorized Person Outside Residence) and a resident of Barangay…
BRIEFING ON GCQ – DILG-Dagupan City director Marilyn Laguipo explains the guidelines for the implementation of General Community Quarantine, the newly introduced classification to the members of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
GOVERNOR Amado Espino III did right in recommending that Pangasinan be removed as a ‘low-risk area’ and instead be classified as Modified General Community Quarantine. This was the reaction of Provincial Health Officer Ana de Guzman to the governor’s request to the Inter Agency Task Force that in turn quickly…
SAP VS. SOCIAL DISTANCING – Residents of Barangay Poblacion Oeste in Dagupan City only had one thing mind – to collect the cash aid from the DSWD, totally ignoring the social distancing protocol required by Enhanced Community Quarantine. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
PANGASINAN’S COVID-19 STATUS AS of May 6, another confirmed COVID-19 case in Pangasinan recovered, raising the number of persons who already recovered from the pandemic to 27 with only just three cases remaining for continued treatment in the hospital. So far, Pangasinan has registered 39 COVID-19 cases: 29 are from…
MASS testing is finally ongoing in 13 towns and three cities that reported 39 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan targeting 4,000 persons that include persons being investigated and monitored and OFWs This was reported by Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, and confirmed that the mass testing is set…
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