Here's a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, Aug.13:
CULTURE EXPLAINED
- Can Gen Z save the Earth and shop on Shein to look stylish on the cheap at the same time? This #ReportrExplainer tackles complicated road to a sustainable closet.
VACCINE NEWS
- That viral video wherein a doctor said that COVID vaccines are unsafe compared to the virus that causes it is false, according to the DOH.
- Should Gamaleya fail to deliver second-dose Sputnik V jabs on time, the Philippines could substitute it with AstraZeneca brand COVID-19 vaccines.
- Some 800,000 Pfizer vaccines have arrived as authorities rushed the delivery of jabs during the lockdown
- Antibodies from the Sinovac COVID jab fade after six months according to a new.lan study that is awaiting peer review.
TRENDING NEWS
- The creatives at GIGIL apologized for its #PandemicEffect ad for Belo that triggered Filipinos online.
- An unidentified man ran naked on the MRT tracks and was caught after a 10-minute streak.
PIXEL WORLD
- Here’s how the pandemic changed how dating apps like Tinder and Grindr get you to swipe more during the pandemic.
- Samsung’s new Galaxy Z Fold 3 is here and it’s slightly less expensive that the Fold 2.
2022 ELECTIONS
- Here’s why Manila Mayor Isko Moreno should run for president in 2022, according to civil society group IM Pilipinas.
- Moreno was also recently elected party president of Aksyon Demokratiko, where Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto is executive vice president.
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Here are the deficiencies flagged by COA with how the DOH used P67 billion in pandemic response funds.
- For the second straight day, the Philippines confirmed roughly 12,000 new COVID-19 cases.
- Police have charged a total of 52 people caught spreading fake news during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the release of an additional P3 billion in ayuda for Bataan and Laguna which are also under ECQ.
- There was no tsunami threat from the Magnitude 7.1 earthquake off the Davao Region yesterday, according to Phivolcs and the USGS.
- The huge fire in BGC the other night was likely caused by a gas pipe that was accidentally busted by a construction worker. One person was hurt in the incident.
- The WHO said it was testing three potential COVID-19 treatments.
- For the entire year’s salary of a Filipino earning P10,000 a month, you can buy a slice of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana’s wedding cake from the early 1980s, according to an auctioneer.
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