A 22-year-old man is under observation after a drunk motorcycle rider ran over him along the bypass road in Barangay Nancayasan, Urdaneta City Monday night, July 18. Victim Mark Bongolan, a resident of Barangay San Jose, Urdaneta City was crossing the road after buying snacks, when Vincent Espinoza, 26, a…
A man was crushed to death by a ten-wheeler truck after falling down from his motorcycle dawn of Tuesday, July 19 along the McArthur Highway in Barangay Bacag in Villasis town. Victim Butch Gallardo, of legal age, resident of Bontoc, Mountain Province, was trying to overtake on the right side…
THE Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) in Dagupan City will soon begin issuing traffic citation tickets for illegally parked vehicles in the city. Arvin Decano, POSO chief, ordered enforcers to start monitoring ‘no parking areas’ and warn motorists of plans to strictly enforce the city ordinance on parking in…
THERE has been 107 percent increase in acute gastroenteritis (AGE) cases from January to July 18 this year in Pangasinan. Surveillance Monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) reveals 3,641 cases were recorded this year, compared to 1,674 cases recorded last year over the same period. So far, 19 individuals…
THE Provincial Health Office’s latest data on leptospirosis cases in Pangasinan shows number cases are down by 31 percent. From January 1 to July 18, only nine cases have been recorded compared to last year’ 13 cases over the same period. No deaths have been recorded. Data also shows that…
ACTIVE COVID-19 cases further rose from 95 to 322 in Region 1 last week, 165 of which were from Pangasinan and Dagupan City, according to the latest monitoring as of July 13 of the Department of Health (DOH) regional office. At the Kapihan sa Ilocos on July 14, Dr. Rhuel…
IMPROVISING ON THE SPOT – A group of young ladies decide to use plastic bags to cover their shoes as they cross flooded streets in Dagupan City during the high tide last week. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TWO PLUS ONE BOOSTER THE Department of Health always referred to individuals who had two doses of vaccines as “fully vaxxed” but apparently having two doses are no longer enough to keep the COVID-19 infection from rising. The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) is expected to change the definition of ‘fully…
THE cases of five former department heads of Santa Barbara government who were allegedly ‘illegally-seated’ being ‘unqualified’ during the past administration under former mayor Joel delos Santos are under probe. This was bared by town mayor Carlito Zaplan in an interview over Aksyon Radyo. Zaplan said two out of five…
MANY people have already expressed interests in availing of the free CT-Scan machine installed at the Dagupan Diagnostic Center but its operation still cannot be done until full compliance with regulations is completed, including hiring of trained technicians. Dr. Ophelia Rivera, city heath officer, said the machine still cannot be…
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