HEADS UP: Child Seats in Cars Mandatory Starting Today (Feb. 2)

Here's a Heads Up from Reportr.World on news that you need to know today, February 2, 2021:

• Starting today, child car seats will be mandatory. There is however a transition period of at least three months to ensure full compliance. Here's what to expect. Also, kids taller than 4'11" are exempted.
• Prices of pork and chicken in Metro Manila will be capped for 60 days to help consumers cope.
• It's below 10 degrees Celsius in Baguio City, here's what you need to know if you plan to visit as the quarantine in the area was elevated on notch to GCQ.
• Are two face masks worn at the same time better than one? The WHO said it depends on the kind of face covering.
• What was a Chinese survey ship doing off Catanduanes? It left yesterday after sheltering there for several days due to rough seas.
• GCQ and MGCQ classifications started yesterday and by March, the Philippines will be in a better position to relax quarantines further, said NEDA Secretary General Karl Kendrick Chua.
• President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his weekly address to the nation on COVID-19 last night.
• The DOH resumed polio and measles vaccinations yesterday, in a dry run of the unprecedented COVID-19 immunization drive.
• How's this for a survival story? A photographer who was laid off from ABS-CBN after its shutdown now operates a new normal burger restaurant with his wife.
• Speaking of burgers, Filipinos' craving for big patties has grown to the point that Jollibee is offering its Champ to more branches nationwide.
• Pope Francis has declared World Grandparents' Day in July to raise awareness over neglect for the elderly.
• Here's what we know so far about the coup in Myanmar, which saw the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. In Manila, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said a putsch "will never happen" under Duterte.

Here's an update on COVID-19 cases as of 4 p.m. of Feb. 1: