TO encourage Dagupeños to adopt bicycles as a mode of transportation when the city transitions to “new normal”, the Sangguniang Panlungsod is mulling a “Bicycle Ordinance of Dagupan City”. Proposed by Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, the measure cites the importance of riding bicycles as a much safer mode of mobility in this time of…
LGUs REMINDED OF GCQ GUIDELINES PANGASINAN residents are mostly compliant with the guidelines set by the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) as demonstrated by the wearing of facemasks and social-physical distancing in all parts of the province under the General Community Quarantine (GCQ) protocol. This was the observation shared by P/Colonel…
THE residents of Calasiao heaved a sigh of relief on learning that the barangay chairman whose Rapid Test showed him symptomatic, finally tested negative of COVID-19. Dr. Arturo Jesus de Vera, the municipal health officer, said the results of the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RTPCR) test on his throat…
CALASIAO’S LONE CASE THE family and residents of the compound in Barangay Bued in Calasiao where the town’s lone COVID-19 case lives have been placed on strict home quarantine by the Municipal Health Office. The 43-year old female front liner in Dagupan tested positive together with her 13 co-workers, during a recent mass…
SPACIOUS JEEPNEY RIDE – Commuters are already experiencing the new normal inside the few jeepneys authorized by the LTFRB to service specific routes in Pangasinan. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
“TEST, TRACE, TREAT” THE Sual government recently opened its Infectious Diseases Isolation Facility at the municipal wharf complex for 28 asymptomatic residents tested positive of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Mayor Dong Calugay said the facility, established in cooperation with Chinese General Hospital, is a component of the “Test, Trace and Treat”…
ONE of 14 members of a family in Barangay Nagpalangan in Binmaley is under isolation at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City after the patient tested positive for COVID-19 in a Rapid Test conducted on June 1. Liga ng mga Barangay Councils president Jonas Rosario, barangay captain of…
STRANDED AT THE BORDER THE provincial government facilitated on May 31 the entry of 4th batch of 49 locally stranded individuals (LSIs) at the Rosales-Tarlac border for over a week after failing to present medical certificate from the municipal health office of the point of origin and travel authority from…
THE establishment of the province’s own molecular laboratory the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) compound is underway. Provincial Engineer Antonietta Delos Santos said the existing old emergency room located at the PPH will be converted into COVID-19 molecular laboratory. She said the provincial government is expecting the final cost estimates next…
ALL 615 persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Urdaneta City remain free of COVID-19 infection. This was confirmed by Urdaneta Jail Supt. Roque Constantino Sison III last Thursday. He said the “e-dalaw” he introduced allows the detainees to interact with their visitors…
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