HEADS UP: Don’t Sweat the Pandemic Effect on Your Body, It’s Okay (Sept. 3)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, Sept. 3:

CULTURE EXPLAINED

• The pandemic changed our bodies and that’s okay. It got us through the most difficult and most uncertain of times.
• Cult favorite RuPaul’s Drag Race made lipsyncs popular, slaying taboos and helping the queer community build its identity.

2022 ELECTIONS

• President Rodrigo Duterte is prepared to run for vice president alone should he fail to find a running mate, said Sen. Bong Go.
• Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte Carpio said it was Go, not Sen. Imee Marcos, who approached her asking to be her vice presidential running mate.
• The Comelec has released guidelines for voter registration at Ayala Malls. 
• For OFWs who want to cast their vote back home, here’s how you can transfer your voter registration.

SUMMIT SANDWICH SESSIONS

• Jose Mari Chan reflects on the huge blessing that is his three-decade old Christmas in Our Hearts, the undisputed soundtrack to modern-day Paskong Pinoy.

TRENDING NEWS

• Two motorcycle riders who went viral for their daredevil antics on the road are policemen and will be investigated, said their boss, PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Meralco has suspended disconnections in MECQ areas, including Metro Manila, until Sept. 7.
• Here are the possible side effects of Ivermectin, for those who want to take it against COVID-19.

PIXEL WORLD

• Instagram was down for some users yesterday, who were unable to refresh their feeds and send direct messages.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Overworked and underpaid health frontliners are demanding the resignation of Health Sec. Francisco Duque. There were 16,621 new infections yesterday.
• Fire hit a portion of the newly-opened SM Mega Tower in Mandaluyong City. 
• How serious is the COVID surge? Cebu is opening Catholic cemeteries to non-Catholics, Church leaders said.
• A military inquiry has concluded that an “uncoverable stall’ caused a C-130 cargo plane to crash in Sulu last July in the country’s worst military aviation disaster.
• Moderna said tainted batches of its COVID vaccines that were detected in Japan contained steel, but should not be harmful to humans.
• Singapore will reopen to visitors from Germany and Brunei, as the rest of the world watches for lessons on how to live with the virus.
• Xiaomi has registered its electric vehicle unit, a step forward for its ambition to crossover to cars from smartphones.
• The blame game in Washington starts after the U.S. was humiliated with the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan.