HEADS UP: Alert Level 3 Expands Outside Metro Manila (Jan. 5)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Jan. 5:

CULTURE EXPLAINED

• Here’s why Harry Potter magic will live on. It’s more than the nostalgia evoked by the 20th anniversary reunion “Return to Hogwarts”.

ELECTION NEWS

• Comelec has dismissed another challenge to Bongbong Marcos’ presidential bid, one that claimed that the Marcos Jr the public sees is an impostor.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Here’s how you can protect yourself from hackers if you use any of the most common passwords of 2021 – 123456, password and qwerty.
• Here are the typhoon names for 2022 according to PAGASA.

TRENDING NEWS

• It’s the sign of flu season and worries over the COVID surge. Biogesic and Paracetamol trended on social media over two days as people stocked up on the pain relievers.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The woman dubbed “Poblacion Girl” and her parents will be charged over her viral quarantine breach, police said.
• Face shields remain voluntary under Alert Level 3, the DILG said.
• Alert Level 3 expands to three of Metro Manila’s surrounding provinces – Bulacan, Cavite and Rizal, where COVID cases are also spiking.
• The 2020/21 bar exams will be cut short in consideration of the COVID situation, the Supreme Court said.
• U.S. authorities have cleared Pfizer’s booster vaccine for children as young as 12.
• The U.S. Capitol siege has proven how sore losers in elections can endanger democracy.