ALL frontliners in the Fourth District can now avail of a free swab test for COVID-19 from the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City. This after Rep. Christopher de Venecia secured the commitment of collaboration from the government-owned R1MC headed by Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia in a memorandum of…
The long overdue accreditation of R1MC THE recent accreditation of Region1 Medical Center by the Department of Health authorized to test specimens for rapid polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for COVID-19 using cartridges should help efforts of the provincial government to flatten the curve with certainty. For too long, hundreds of…
INDEPENDENCE DAY IN LINGAYEN — Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil (4th from left) is joined by other town officials in waving flaglets from the veranda of the town hall building during celebration of the 122nd Philippine Independence Day. (Punchphoto by Cesaar Ramirez)
AFTER TARGETED MASS TESTING AFTER the first wave of targeted mass testing in various parts of Pangasinan, the number of COVID-19 cases in the province has ballooned to 71 with 12 more cases added to the 59 patients (17 of them active) recorded last June 5, according to the monitoring…
DAGUPAN City is back anew as COVID-19 free as its 14 frontliners who earlier tested positive for the coronavirus disease on June 1 eventually tested negative in their latest Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction tests This was announced by Mayor Brian Lim in his tweet in his Twitter account late Friday…
THE mosquito-borne disease, dengue, has already claimed nine lives in Pangasinan this year to date. According to Provincial Health Office’s Surveillance and Epidemiology Unit, the fatalities were from Bolinao, Mangaldan, San Fabian, Sta. Barbara, Manaoag, Pozorrubio and Urdaneta City with one death each. Bayambang had two fatalities. In 2019 (Jan….
DURING COMMUNITY QUARANTINE PERIOD THE crime situation in Pangasinan has improved dramatically by 70% during the period March 17 to June 5, the first three stages of community quarantine, compared to the same period last year. This was the assessment of P/Colonel Redrico A. Maranan, police provincial director, of the…
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