WHAT GCQ? — Even after the National IATF granted the provincial government’s request for higher community classification from Modified General Community Quarantine to General Community Quarantine due to surging active cases in the province, barangay folks in Barangay Banaoang in Calasiao town don’t seem alarmed as children play on the streets without face…
“THE WORST IS YET TO COME” TWO out of ten Dagupeňos are likely to be infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19 in varying degrees of condition – from mild to fatal – in the next two weeks even as the local government continues to grapple in containing the rapid…
PANGASINAN’S WAR ON COVID-19 PANGASINAN continues to grapple with the surge of the pandemic being confronted with 2,355 new cases, with only 50 percent recovery performance of cases at 1,154, for the period September 3 to 9, effectively pulling up the number of active cases confined in hospitals and LGU-managed…
ANOTHER RECORD HIGH DAGUPAN CITY continues to be the epicenter of the pandemic in the province when it registered the biggest single day surge of 109 cases against just 34 recoveries on September 9, bringing its active cases up to another record high of 742. Now under the General Community…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a resolution last week strongly urging the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and the Department of Health to convert the Region 1 Medical Center as a “dedicated COVID-19 hospital for the province of Pangasinan.” Authored by Fourth District Board…
THE provincial Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) agreed to place Manaoag town under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) until Sept. 19, Sunday. In a meeting last Sept. 3, the provincial IATF granted the request of Manaoag local government owing to the unusual surge in COVID-19 cases recently. Provincial IATF resolution 07-…
IF you can avoid it, don’t get sick! This was the message that Dr. Ophelia Rivera, COVID-19 focal person in Dagupan City, conveyed to the Sangguniang Panlungsod during the inquiry in aid of legislation on the current status of COVID-19 amid its reported renewed surge blamed to the Delta variant. She…
HYBRID EDUCATION — Personnel of a freight forwarder unload thousands of printed modules and learning materials for students’ e-learning online for Dagupan City DepEd Schools Division’s school year 2021-2022 that starts this month. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ALL-TIME HIGH IN ONE DAY THOUGH Pangasinan logged 2,629 new cases in what could be the biggest COVID-19 surge in a week, hopes were rekindled when 807 patients recovered on September 1 that went down in the history of the pandemic as the biggest single day recovery in the province since…
THE detection of 11 COVID-19-Delta variant in Pangasinan, the latest of whom were eight in the province and one in Dagupan City on August 27, was tagged as the main reason for the new surge of COVID-19 in the province. This was the observation of the Department of Health-Center for Health…
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