WHILE health authorities are still determining the lethality of the COVID-19 Omicron variant, but they all agree on one thing: it’s more contagious than Delta. This was bared by Dr. Rheuel Bobis, COVID-19 focal person of Department of Health – Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) Region 1, in an interview…
THE Department of Health’s Center for Health Development Region 1 is preparing for a likely spike in COVID-19 cases because of crowd celebrations and activities during the Christmas holiday. He said this was the case last year after the Christmas holiday. Dr. Rheuel Bobis, COVID-19 focal person, said the CHD…
FIRST CHRISTMAS EVE UNDER NEW NORMAL – Thousands of Catholics in Dagupan City physically attend the traditional Christmas Eve mass at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral for the first time under new normal after missing it in 2020. Hundreds of devotees stayed outside the church to hear mass as number…
CITY’S SECOND DRUG-FREE BARANGAY THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), recently declared Barangay Tebeng in Dagupan City as a drug-free barangay, only the second barangay to be declared drug-free in the city after Barangay Mamalingling. A certification dated December 16, 2021 attesting Tebeng’s drug-free status was received by Tebeng Barangay…
NETIZENS ANGERED BY CITY GOV’T INDIFFERENCE “YONG kotongero na yan dapat na mahuli sa entrapment, tapos ang tao na yan dapat itapon sa dagat para mapakinabangan ng mga hipon at isda”. This was one of the harshest comments on a YouTube report posted by SMNI December 22 -“Pangongotong sa Vendors ng…
ANOTHER piece of good news at the Capitol. Pangasinan was ranked among the top 10 provinces in the entire country with the highest total revenue collection for Calendar Year 2020. Based on the report of the Commission on Audit (COA), Pangasinan is fourth in the top 10 list with a…
NETIZENS in Pangasinan were expressly awed by the provincial government’s successful campaign vs, COVID-19 pandemic. This was gleaned from the hundreds of comments posted on social media after the Pangasinan Health Office reported zero COVID-19 case on Christmas Day, (December 25). It was the first time the province logged zero…
12% MORE TO GO FOR HERD IMMUNITY SOME 1.3 million individuals in Pangasinan are already fully vaccinated as of Dec. 27, according to the Provincial Health Office (PHO). Dr. Anna de Guzman said the number represents 58.5 percent of the identified eligible population in the province. She said some 1.7…
MANGALDAN’S DEPICTION OF NATIVITY – Residents and visitors approach the life-size mock-up of the depiction of the birth of Jesus Christ for better appreciation of the creative details erected at the town plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
P200K FUND FOR EACH BARANGAY WITH only six days before the year ends, only eight of the 31 barangays in Dagupan City received their respective shares of this year’s allocated P6.2 million Barangay Fund. This was bared by City Councilor Teresa Coquia who confirmed that seven barangays (Mayombo, Mangin, Barangays…
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