VACCINE FOR MEASLES – Family members put their hands together to calm down their baby as the vaccine is administered on her by a nurse at the clinic for the government’s Chikiting Ligtas, ang bakuna ay kontra sa Tigdas program. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
STA. BARBARA is no longer ranked as having the second highest number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan but Lingayen. As of October 22, the tally of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) shows Lingayen behind Dagupan in the number of COVID-19 cases at 31 as of 6 p.m. on October…
THE Lingayen government, headed by Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, is considering a localized lockdown in some barangays due to increasing number of residents that tested positive for COVID-19. Lingayen is among the five towns in the province with the highest number of COVID-19 cases — with 31 recorded cases, according to…
SOME 1,526 local residents in the province were swabbed during the four-day aggressive community mass testing conducted by the National Task Force of the Inter-Agency Task Force in the Management of Infectious Disease (IATF), in partnership with the Pangasinan provincial government from October 19 to 22. Pangasinan was one of…
REMEMBERING LOLO BEFORE NOV. 1 – The two sisters remember to honor their grandfather at the memorial park in Dagupan City before it closes this week in compliance with IATF protocol for All Souls Day. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 and the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (C.O.D.E.) recently held extensive testing in Pangasinan as part of the Test, Trace, Treat (TTT) strategy to detect COVID-19 cases. Director Pebbles Duque of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO), said CODE involves close coordination between and among various…
THE Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) reported that 123 policemen have since tested positive for COVID-19 but only 12 remain active cases, as of Oct. 21. P/Colonel Jessiemyr Protacio, chief of the Regional Health Service 1, said 111 had recovered. The Administrative Support for COVID-19 Task Force Monitoring of the…
ALARMED by police reports that rape cases increased during the period of the pandemic, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed an ordinance for the establishment of a gender-based and risk-based protocol in handling gender-based violence cases against women in Pangasinan. An emotional Fifth District Board Member Grace Rosary Perez-Tababa had appealed to…
JOB order employees, consultants, contractual and other employees hired in January will be given P2,500 worth of assistance by the provincial government to help them cope with difficulties during the pandemic. This was contained in Provincial Resolution No. 1649, series of 2020 approved during October 19 virtual session of the…
RENEWING REMEMBRANCE –A tombstone maker rushes work on stone to replace an old tombstone as a family’s remembrance. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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