AN Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who could not report for work overseas due to Covid-19, met his untimely demise Thursday afternoon when he was ran over by a ten-wheeler truck. P/Lt. Col. Joseph Fajardo, Calasiao chief of police, identified the victim as Christian Tolentino, a resident of Poblacion Sur in…
Be very afraid THE decision of Governor Amado Espino III to ask for a downgrade for Pangasinan – from a ‘low-risk area’ (no quarantine) to General Community Quarantine (GCQ) was both prudent and practical for the province. Indeed, to completely remove all protocols for communities will easily give the wrong…
CASH AID FROM RELATIVES – Barangay folk form long queues in front of money remittance centers daily during the Enhanced Community Quarantine to redeem cash sent by relatives and employers to help them survive the lockdown. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
UNDER NEW GENERAL COMMUNITY QUARANTINE THE Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) withdrew its low-risk area (No-Quarantine) level for Pangasinan and classified it instead as General Community Quarantine effective May 16 to 31 following an appeal made by Governor Amado Espino III to ensure the province’s certain transition to…
THE provincial health office has recommended that tighter controls at border checkpoints be done during the General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) period to prevent further COVID-19 infection in the province. In a PUNCH interview, Provincial Health Officer Ana de Guzman said 17 cases out of the 40 confirmed positive cases contracted…
ALTHOUGH the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan has risen to 40 with the inclusion of a 29-year old male from Barangay Dupac in Asingan (see story COVID-19 resurfaces in Asingan), the four remaining COVID-19 patients from Dagupan confined at the Region 1 Medical Center have all recovered and were set to be…
QUARANTINE VS. SUMMER HEAT — A family defies the Enhanced Community Quarantine protocol that bans swimming in public beaches and rivers and bathes by the river near the Pantal-Lucao bridge. More families swim in the river daily with no one from the city government stopping them from violating the quarantine. (Punchphoto by Willie…
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