THE number of confirmed COVID cases in Pangasinan further rose to 33 with nine fatalities as of April 11, though five managed to recover, 19 were confined per April 9 monitoring of the Pangasinan Provincial Office,

Dagupan City has topped the statistics with six confirmed cases, one of whom died.

PHO reported 123 Patients Under Investigation (PUI) 50 of whom have recovered, 58 were confined while 15 had died.

Dagupan, which is already under the Extreme Enhanced Quarantine (EECQ) still leads in the number of PUIs at 10 with nine confined and while one died. Dagupan listed six PUIs that recovered. (See story Top 10 cities, towns with COVID-19 cases, PUIs).

Bayambang is next to Dagupan with most number of COVID-19 confirmed cases, one recovered. Dr. Henry Fernandez of Barangay Bical Norte, a confirmed case, died. Bayambang was placed under EECQ on March 21 to 30 but was extended to April 7 by Governor Amado Espino III.

Also in the list of towns with high cases is Rosales with three confirmed cases, one of whom recovered and another died while the third is still in the hospital. It has two PUIs, one of whom already died. Mayor Susan Casareno placed Rosales under EECQ till April 14.

Mayor Constante Agbayani imposed EECQ in San Fabian due to the death of a seven-year old girl who was first categorized as PUI when she died at the La Union Medical Hospital in Agoo but was later on confirmed to have died from COVID-19.

It was only five days into the dead girl’s wake that the confirmation that she died from COVID-19 arrived, which made contact-tracing difficult, prompting Mayor Agbayani to lock down the barangay where the girl came from and eventually the whole town.

Also placed on lockdown was Alaminos City as soon as the city government received confirmation that the death of one PUI from Barangay Alos who died at The Medical City in Dagupan was due to COVID-19 since one from Alaminos was already found positive for the coronavirus.

The only other fatality from COVID-19 was from Urbiztondo–former second district Board Member Raul Sison.

Meanwhile, the PHO reported 889,327 Persons Under Monitoring (PUM) in Pangasinan. Of these, 81,882 or 91.7 percent completed their quarantine; 7,094 or 7.9 percent are undergoing quarantine and 351 or 0.4 percent have incomplete quarantine. (Leonardo Micua) 

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