IN an unprecedented move, the provincial government asked the Regional Inter-Agency-Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to place Pangasinan under the higher classification status of General Community Quarantine (GCQ) with heightened restrictions from September 1 – 15 in view of the rising cases of COVID-19. The request…
SCHOOLROOM EQUIPPED AS ISOLATION FACILITY — Dagupan City Mayor Brian Lim inspects one of the hospital beds delivered to the newly constructed East Central Integrated School in Brgy. Mayombo for the conversion of six classrooms into an intermediary quarantine facility for mild COVID-19 cases that can no longer be accommodated in hospitals. (Punchphoto…
THE Ilocos Center for Health and Development (DOH-CHD-1) logged 27 new cases of the more transmissible COVID-19-Delta variant last Monday, August 30, bringing the total to 49 cases in Region 1. DOH-CHD-1 COVID-19 focal person Dr. Rheuel Bobis said the results of the genome sequencing of the 27 cases were…
ALREADY accounting for one Delta variant case, Dagupan registered 279 new cases against 124 recoveries over a seven-day period from August 26 to September 1 to remain the epicenter of the pandemic in Pangasinan. This brought to 531 the number of active cases in Dagupan. The total cases registered to date is…
COVID-19 CASES BREACH 20K THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) confirmed detection of eight new cases of COVID-19- Delta variant last Tuesday, August 31. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Anna de Guzman said the new confirmed Delta cases are being monitored and investigated. She said her office is closely monitoring health status…
NO FEAR. NO CHILD SUPERVISION – The community in Sitio Cabarwan, Brgy. Banaoang, Calasiao town is not the least concerned about rising COVID-19 cases in the town and the vulnerability of children to the disease. Children are not made to wear face masks during playtime .Worse, no parent or adult from the barangay cares…
THE Pangasinan Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force recommended last week to place ten towns and two cities in the province under a two-week lockdown to curb the rising COVID-19 cases after Pangasinan logged 344 new active COVID-19 new case, in a one day, the highest since the pandemic started. Recommended to…
ONLY 1 BARANGAY COVID-FREE THE COVID-19 situation in Dagupan City is alarming health officials after it registered a record high of 54 new cases on August 24, the biggest surge in a single day since the contagion began, raising its active cases that day to a new high of 404,…
THE provincial government has imposed a new set of curfew hours, in a bid to curb the increasing infection of the COVID-19 in the province effective August 24. In his Executive Order No. 0090-2021 issued last Monday, Governor Amado Espino III ordered the province-wide curfew from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00…
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