THE provincial government has asked the national government to start providing test kits to the province to check and validate increasing suspected cases. Governor Amado Espino III said the test kits will enable the provincial government to test as many so that persons positive or symptomatic of the virus can be…
CONTRA COVID-19 MORE than 600 persons deprived of liberty (PDL) detained at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dagupan City are staying in the “safest place” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This was how Jail Officer 1 Gizelle Marie Panergo described the situation inside the facility aid which…
COLORFUL FACE MASKS – Street vendor shows varied colorful cloth face masks that small entrepreneurs produced in the face of shortage of surgical face masks. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINAN recorded its first confirmed case on March 20 in Bayambang town. This was confirmed by Bayambang Mayor Cezar Quiambao, in a live interview aired over Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan, where he also confirmed that the victim died at the Lung Center of the Philippines. “The patient was tested earlier this…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the medical frontliners and health workers attending to COVID-19 patients are “the faces of Jesus”. In a message on March 26 on the Facebook page of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan., Villegas wrote, “You are taking care of God. We cannot pay back your love and…
A MAGNITUDE 4.3 earthquake hit Agno town on March 24 Tuesday, 4:23 a.m., but no damage to person and property was reported by the Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office. PDRRMO’s early warning division head Shallom Balolong said the earthquake was tectonic and not inland but part of…
LINGAYEN Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil placed its Barangay Libsong West under Extreme Enhanced Community Quarantine (EECQ) following the death of a Patient Under Investigation (PUI) from that village on March 25 at the Region1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City. Bataoil issued Executive Order No. 26 Series of 2020 on March 25…
TO ease the minds of two residents of Malasiqui town being treated in a hospital, the town’s government moved to take over usual household chores during their confinement. Mayor Noel Anthony Geslani said in an advisory on March 24 tasked barangay officials where the two live to do the errands…
DOWNTOWN STREET AS PALAY DRYER – With no vehicles plying the once busy street, an enterprising farmer freely uses the street to dry his palay harvest with no one accosting him for violating the quarantine protocol. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
DOCTORS in Pangasinan advise patients seeking medical help to be true to themselves and must tell the truth during interviews. Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia of the Region I Medical Center (R1MC) said those who manifest symptoms of COVID-19 must be honest and to tell the truth of what they are…
© 2026 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
