TO help stop COVID-19, the office of Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia turned over to the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) on Wednesday (April 1) 80 personal protective equipment (PPEs) and 400 goggles for frontliners’ use. Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia, R1MC director, received these items and thanked Congressman De Venecia for…
Technology to the rescue LAST week, The PUNCH received a copy of the presentation of HUAWEI Technology offering its Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution to the hospitals in the country for FREE! It is the same AI that helped Wuhan City, ground zero of COVID-19, successfully flattened the curve and effectively…
BUSTLING CITY GONE – A.B. Fernandez Ave., Dagupan City’s main commercial district, usually crowded with vehicles and shoppers, is virtually a ghost town at 6p.m. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINAN UPDATES AS of 9 am, today (Sunday), updates from the Pangasinan Provincial Health Office listed 12 confirmed COVID-19 cases, four of whom had died, 48 patients under investigation (PUI), 18 had been admitted and under treatment, and 28 others had been discharged. Two had died in confinement, one of…
THE province is no longer simply under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) but as Extreme Enhanced Quarantine (EECQ) from March 23 to 31. Governor Amado Espino III issued E.O.No. 0015-2020 after receiving the report that two persons: one from Rosales and another from Bayambang, died, while two, both from Malasiqui, are being…
SPOT THE MISTAKE – A Dagupan POSO strikes a pose as if threatening to shoot a rider as he takes the latter’s body temperature with a scanner. (The PUNCH notes a mistake of POSO enforcer in implementing standard procedures in the photo.) (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
AS of March 25, the two persons in Malasiqui town found positive of COVID-19 and presently confined at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in Barangay Bolingit, San Carlos City, are already in stable condition. This was disclosed by Dr. Cielo Almoite, assistant provincial health officer, who earlier confirmed that two of the original…
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