RT-PCR MASS TESTING RESULTS IF the results of the first round of the expanded targeted mass testing using the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reactions test in Pangasinan is any indication, as of June 18 the provincial government’s efforts to flatten COVID-19’s curve are succeeding. The data culled and prepared by…

THE number of active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan is back to 10 after a 60-year-old delivery driver of a construction supply store from Barangay Caloocan Norte, Binmaley, a female in Dagupan City and a 21-year-old female from Ballarta, Infanta were confirmed to have tested positive on June 26. This after…

A policeman assigned in Taguig City who recently went home in Barangay Navatat, Basista tested positive of COVID-19. Mayor Jolly Resuello said in his public advisory that the 45-year-old policeman, tested negative in his rapid test last month. However, on the day he went home to Basista on June 17…

COVID-19 UPDATE: 7 NEW CASES THE campaign against COVID-19 in Pangasinan is perhaps almost won with the recovery of 67 COVID-19 patients, leaving only eight still confined in different hospitals and isolation facilities, against nine fatalities at the beginning of the pandemic in March. Of the 67 who recovered, 13…

TWO men committed suicide separately over two different reasons. A depressed resident of Barangay Lucao in Dagupan City committed suicide after losing his job. The victim, identified as Renato Diaz, 53 years old, was found inside the family’s sari-sari store by his daughter, sprawled on the floor, lifeless, his head…

NEW COVID-19 CASES TWO residents of Dagupan City who arrived from Metro Manila tested positive for COVID-19. According to the city government’s Public Information Office, a 32-year-old female OFW from Barangay Calmay, was confirmed on June 24 to have tested positive for COVID-19. The patient arrived in the Philippines last…

ILLEGAL drug trading in Pangasinan was also not spared by the quarantine and lockdown protocol since March and suffered a slump in spite of the continued high demand among drug users. This was the indication gleaned from the accomplishment of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) throughout the lockdown period…