Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Oct. 13:
NEWS YOU CAN USE
- Shorter curfew hours in Metro Manila starts today, from 12 midnight to 4 a.m. President Rodrigo Duterte is also due to decide this week whether to extend or downgrade Alert Level 4 in the capital region.
2022 ELECTIONS
- Coin toss tiebreakers happen in Philippine elections and drive home the point that you need to register and vote to be heard.
- House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez proposed banning candidate substitution to stop what he described as a “mockery” of the election process.
- Here’s your guide to Comelec’s satellite offices and schedules for voter registration, which resumes Oct. 11 to 30.
PIXEL WORLD
- Instagram is testing a new feature that will notify users in-app if the app is down. That’s how it is.
- ‘Squid Game’ on Netflix has horrified the world into taking Korean language courses. After BTS, the streaming hit is the new gateway to Halyu.
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- President Rodrigo Duterte says blame him, not anyone else, for the lack of vaccines at the start of the year.
- Still doubting the vaccine? To stress his point, Duterte said he would “lead” the delivery of vaccines straight to homes, even at night.
- The Philippines received 924,300 Pfizer vaccines that are intended for minors ahead of the expansion of the vaccination program on Oct. 15.
- Thousands in the Cagayan Valley region reeled from overnight floods as Tropical Storm Maring (Kompasu) headed out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility. At least nine people were dead.
- WHO experts support giving an extra COVID vaccine dose to people with weakened immune systems.
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