HEADS UP: Poblacion Girl Fallout: Hotel Suspended, Contacts Party in La Union (Jan. 6)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Jan. 6:

QUARANTINE NEWS

• President Rodrigo Duterte has assigned two policemen per quarantine hotel to avoid a repeat of the viral “Poblacion Girl” breach wherein a woman escaped isolation to party.
• The woman’s close contacts were confirmed to have attended a typhoon benefit in La Union after she tested positive for COVID-19.
• Berjaya Hotel, which allowed the girl to party before finishing isolation, was suspended and fined, the DOT said.
• Sen. Nancy Binay said more than policemen,marshalls should guard quarantine facilities to ensure a public health approach.

NEWS EXPLAINED

• Before the next president of the Philippines is elected, candidates must first find a way to campaign effectively under the shadow of the Omicron variant.

TRENDING NEWS

• Filipinos tweeted each other “pagaling” or get well as they searched drug stores for elusive stock of their favorite paracetamol brand during flu season that struck as Omicron infections explode around the world.

PIXEL WORLD

• Here’s how you can spot a sextortionist on chat and dating apps to avoid falling prey to these fraudsters.
• The world’s BlackBerries that run on its own BlackBerry OS have stopped working properly from Jan. 4 as the software reaches “end of life”, meaning it’s dead.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The country logged10,775 COVID cases yesterday, double from the previous day and the highest so far for 2022.
• Hong Kong hasbanned flights from eight countries including the Philippines to curb the spread of COVID-19.
• A group of martial law survivors have asked Comelec to speedily resolve petitions seeking to disqualify the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ son from running for president.
• The global spread of the relatively weaker Omicron variant gives the world cautious hope that herd immunity is in sight as the virus evolves into a seasonal illness, that is if no new variants emerge.
• A set of twins in California are born 15 minutes apart and in different years – 2021 and 2022.
• Sony has unwrapped Vision S, its prototype electric car as it announced plans to set up a company exclusively for mobility
• China mandated COVID tests for a city of 12 million that was placed under partial lockdown to contain an outbreak.