HEADS UP: These Superspreader Gatherings are Banned (June 8)

Here's a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, June 8:

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Are parties banned? More precisely, superspreader events are banned, here are the gatherings that qualify as superspreaders and must be avoided.
• Keep checking your Tinder app for updates, a new “block contacts” feature is rolling out for you to avoid awkward run-ins online with your ex (or exes) and family.
• Vaccines are rolling out for A4 or economic frontliners. President Rodrigo Duterte likened the development to a “light at the end of the tunnel.” Here’s how you can register for a jab as A4 in Taguig. 

TRENDING NEWS

• A Gen Z photographer’s thesis is trending for challenging beauty conventions by recreating the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo with the most unlikely of muses.

2022 ELECTIONS

• Ex-Defense Sec. Gilbert Teodoro explains why he is breaking his 10-year-long political hiatus after a humbling defeat in the 2010 elections against his cousin, former President Noynoy Aquino.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Sports history was made. Nineteen-year-old golfer Yuka Saso became the first Filipina to win the U.S. Women’s Open.
• Pinoy pride on the trade front. The Philippines started exporting okra to South Korea, calling the vegetable “high value.”
• More needs to be done for “genuine equality,” Vice President Leni Robredo said in her pride month message.
• The first shipment of products that fill up IKEA Philippines, has arrived in the country. Operations start in the fourth quarter.
• The Chocolate Kiss is shutting down its pastry business, too. It will bake cakes only until June 22.
• For inclusivity. Manila has opened its first Muslim cemetery.
• Right on schedule, the BGC-Ortigas link bridge will open by Independence Day, June 12.
• Meet Juan Bikes, who travel the country on two wheels during the pandemic to cure their wanderlust.
• Where’s the vaccine? Four decades later, the world has yet to see immunization against AIDS.