HEADS UP: How to Keep Safe from New COVID Variant (Jan. 15)

Here's a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, Jan. 15:

• The best way to keep safe from the UK COVID strain is to keep doing what you've been doing all along: handwashing and proper wearing of face masks and face shields, authorities said.
• The country's biggest businessmen ordered an additional 17 million doses of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine.
• Pfizer secured authorization from the FDA for emergency use, meaning it can be rolled out faster. It is the first COVID-19 jab to secure such a certification in the Philippines.
• Here's our explainer on emergency use of vaccines and why it matters, more so during this pandemic.
• Here's another explainer, why topics of national interest such as the death of flight attendant Christine Dacera sill require respect for privacy.
• More on the Dacera case, do gay men go straight after a few drinks like what a police officer said? More than the memes, it's a discourse on sexual preference and sexual orientation.
• The Skyway Stage 3 goes full blast today after formal opening rites last night.
• Heads up GCash users, you can now resume your cash in via 7-Eleven.
• Donald Trump holds the distincition of being the only U.S. president to be impeached twice. Democracts are doing this to disqualify him from running again in 2024 or ever.

Here's an update on COVID-19 cases as of 4 p.m. of Jan. 14: