THE total population of the Ilocos region has reached 5,301,139, based on the result of the recently concluded 2020 Census of Population and Housing. Atty. Sheila de Guzman, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Region 1 officer-in-charge, said the total population of the region increased on an annual average of 1.13 percent…
WATERWORLD IN THE CITY – Motorists driving through a junction of the Perez Boulevard and Tapuac road in Dagupan City found themselves negotiating a flooded area after torrential rains hit the city. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE red alert is up! The Department of Health-Center for Health Development I (DOH-CHD1) is gearing up for possible contagion Covid-Delta variant in the region. It has begun close coordination with all public and private hospitals in the province for the implementation of plans for the expected detection of the…
THE number of active COVID-19 cases in Dagupan City ballooned to 127, just eight days after the Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Unit (RESU) of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 classified it as one of the 10 risk areas of Pangasinan. This even if it scored 24 recoveries against…
REGION LISTS 425K VACCINATED THE Center for Health Development–Region 1 confirmed that its data already listed 425, 231 persons in the region that were inoculated with COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Rheuel Bobis, CHD-1 spokesperson, said, however, only 123,816 or 29.82% of the number received their second dose. As of July 18,…
PANGASINAN EFFORTS PAYING OFF WHILE the number of COVID -19 cases continues to rise in Metro Manila and other areas in the country, the number of COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan again continues its downtrend with 690 compared to the new cases recorded numbering 411, and 11 deaths. According to the data…
EXPECT more would-be candidates for the 2022 national elections to visit and campaign in the province from hereon. The number of registered voters in Pangasinan has breached the two million mark making it one of the vote-rich provinces in the country for the 2022 election Provincial Election Supervisor Marino Salas…
FREE BANCAS –Fishermen from barangays Bonuan Guest, Bonuan Boquig, Bonuan Binloc, Calmay, Lucao, Carael, Lomboy, Mamalingling, Pugaro, at Salapingao, representing 2nd batch of beneficiaries, prepare to go home in their new bancas given by the Dagupan City government on Saturday, July 10. The Lim administration distributed 200 bancas last year….
THE Sunday PUNCH redeemed is journalistic record as a responsible community newspaper when the libel complaints filed by City State Savings Bank, Inc. against eight of its staff seven year ago were dismissed by Branch 167 of the Regional Trial Court in Pasig City as gleaned from its order dated…
FROM MARCH 2019 TO DATE PANGASINAN leads in the number of confirmed cases in Region 1 totaling 11,929 based on records of the Department of Health-Center for Health Development 1 as of July 12, 2021. This was revealed by Dr. Rheuel Bobis, COVID-19 focal person in Region 1, who said of…
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