UPDATE ON VACCINATION ROLLOUT THE rollout of vaccination in Pangasinan already covered 288,814 persons with anti-COVID-19 vaccine as of last Monday, August 2, representing 17% of the eligible population in the province. This was confirmed by Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, during the Question Hour of the Sangguniang…
THE Ilocos Region has been classified as one of the “high risk” areas in the country by the Department of Health (DOH) owing to its level of COVID-19 infections. DOH Undersecretary Rosario Vergeire cited the region’s average daily attack rate (ADAR) of 8.47 cases per 100,000 population while its healthcare…
ALARM RAISED AMID PANDEMIC DENGUE cases in Pangasinan increased by 70 percent from January to Aug. 2 this year compared to last year’s record of the same period that resulted in the listing of three cities and two towns in the Dengue watch list. In a radio interview, Provincial Health Officer…
WATER WORLD IN DAGUPAN – Motorists carefully drive through a long stretch of flooded area along Tapuac Road leading to Perez Boulevard and Burgos St. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
RESIDENTS in Pangasinan are urged to be vigilant against the Delta variant which can spread faster than the ordinary COVID-19 strain. The call was made by Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, as she maintained that while no Delta variant has been detected in COVID patients in Pangasinan so…
PANDEMIC IN PANGASINAN COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan spurted with 505 new confirmed cases but this was kept at bay by the bigger number of patients recovering pegged at 692 as gleaned from the monitoring conducted by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) from July 23 to 29. This as COVID-19 cases continue to…
THE recent unusual series of flooding in Dagupan City caused by high tide has prompted the Sagguniang Panlungsod to ask the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) Coastal Research and Development Center (CRDC) Research Center in Batac, Ilocos Norte to study and make recommendations on the experienced changes in the…
THE president of the Pangasinan Mayors’ League said the President’s sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) was modest but impactful. Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil, president of the league, said the President’s SONA not only cited the government’s response and remaining courses of action to the COVID-19 pandemic…
NO FEAR OF LEPTOSPIROSIS – Teens in Brgy. Bacayao Sur in Dagupan walk through the flooded barangay road unaware that they could be infected with leptospirosis. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
AT 11:15 a.m. on July 28, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (NDRRMC) sent a text message that warned about orange rainfall that will be experienced in Pangasinan and alerted residents about the threat of heavy rains and soil erosion. A day earlier, the City Disaster Risk Reduction…
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