HEADS UP: Top News Stories You Need to Know Today, April 29

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on the top news stories that you need to know today, April 29:

NEWS EXPLAINED

• This YouTube channel features testimonies from real people to give voters an idea of who presidential Leni Robredo is, win or lose and stripped of fake news.

ELECTION NEWS

• Based on 7-Eleven drink cup sales, Bongbong Marcos is the choice for president of the convenience store chain’s customers.
• The mayor of Baguio apologized to Vice President Leni Robredo’s youngest daughter, Jillian, who was heckled at the city’s public market while campaigning for her mother.
• Bongbong Marcos will skip the Comelec’s panel interviews due to his tight schedule two weeks before the May 9 elections, his spokesman said.
• Here’s how Comelec’s panel interviews with presidential and vice presidential candidates will proceed on the week before the elections.

RETURN TO OFFICE

• Zoom and MS Teams video calls kill creativity. Better do it at the office, research shows.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The DOH urged the public to get boosted after the highly contagious omicron variant was detected locally for the first time.
• Pandemic disruptions have led to an 80% spike in measles infections and more diseases could follow, putting children at risk, the UN said.
• China’s leader Xi Jinping promised to go “all out” on infrastructure to shore up his country’s morale that’s hammered by the pandemic. Think build, build, build.
• A reminder to families from Pope Francis: Be kind to your mother-in-law.