SEVEN barangays of Sta. Barbara were placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) level while zones and households in seven barangays were isolated for zonal containment following the upsurge of COVID-19 cases in the town. This was ordered by the town’s municipal government after 91 employees of a plant of San Miguel Corporation…
MORE isolation facilities in towns and cities should be opened to meet the continuous surge in the number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan. The alert was raised by Col. Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro of the Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force on the Management of Infectious Diseases (IATF) before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…
THE fight against COVID-19 in Pangasinan sprung back to life when 48 patients recovered from the disease and no new confirmed case was reported at 6:00 a.m. on October 9, according to the monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO). This brought to 781 the total number of recovered cases in Pangasinan with 407…
AN intensified zoning containment strategy is being employed by the provincial government to slow down the spread of COVID-19 in the province. According to Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, chief of the Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management Office, the strategy involves conducting aggressive contact tracing to curb COVID-19 and to establish…
THE contact-tracing for the sudden surge of COVID-19 infection in Sta. Barbara is posing a big challenge to the Provincial Health Office. This sentiment was expressed by Dr. Anna Teresa de Guzman, provincial health officer, after the town became the epicenter of COVID-19 in Pangasinan overnight. She said it is…
LEADING BY EXAMPLE — Gov. Amado Espino III goes shopping at the Pamanang-Yaman, Produktong Pangasinan a trade show to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) whose businesses were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Capitol Plaza in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
LOGBOOK CHECK-INS RISKY THE practice of business establishments requiring customers to register their personal data using one pen for all to use before entering and result in long queues, prompted the filing of a resolution at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to call on all the establishments to adopt another method because…
AFTER a week of no reported COVID-19 cases, the San Carlos City government recorded two new infections in the city last week. The City Information Office confirmed on Monday, October 5, that the two new cases of COVID-19 in the city are a 53-year-old man in Barangay Lilimasan and a…
THE recent surge in the spread of COVID-19 infection reported in Sta. Barbara town logged 91 new cases after a mass testing was conducted in a plant complex. According to Mayor Joel delos Santos all those who tested positive were workers of a big plant in Barangay Tebag. Most of…
NINE persons who are close contacts of a COVID-19 patient from Balungao town who recently died tested positive for the virus. The town’s Municipal Inter-Agency Task Force announced the results last Wednesday evening, October 7, that the nine were out of 40 persons separately tested on Oct. 3 and Oct….
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