HEADS UP: A New Peak for Daily COVID Cases -- 22,000 (Aug. 31)

Here’s a Heads Up from reporter on news that you need to know today, Aug. 31:

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• A new single day record: 22,000 new COVID cases were confirmed yesterday.
• Apo Whang-od did not consent to teach tattooing at Nas Academy, according to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples. Nas Academy refuted this.
• A woman who was sued for cyberlibel by GIGIL boss Herbert Hernandez over sexual harassment claims got the support of her colleagues online.
• The voice of grumpy Carl Fredricksen from Pixar’s “Up”, Emmy winner Ed Asner, has died at 91.
• Circumcisions are available again to Filipino boys who look to the medical procedure as their rite of passage into manhood.
• The world awaits the first statement from the Taliban’s supreme leader, who has remained elusive despite his group regaining control of Afghanistan.
• Hurricane Ida lashed Louisiana state in the U.S. testing flood control measures that were borne out of monster storm Katrina 16 years ago.
• The UAE will start reissuing visas to fully-vaccinated tourists.
• New Zealand has reported its first death due to Pfizer’s COVID vaccine.

2022 ELECTIONS

• Sen. Bong Go has declined the call of a PDP-Laban faction for him to run as president and be the running mate of President Rodrigo Duterte, who is running for vice president.
• Sen. Manny Pacquiao is ready to run for president as an independent, his allies said as they prepared to assert the legitimacy of their faction of PDP-Laban over a rival group that is led by Duterte’s energy chief.

PIXEL WORLD

• Clubhouse is adding a new spatial audio feature to make chats and performances feel more life-like.