HEADS UP: Do You Feel Guilty Over Bringing COVID Home to Your Family? (Feb. 4)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Feb. 4:

LIFE KIT

• Are you overcome with guilt, feeling that you brought COVID home to your family? Here’s how you can deal with it.

ELECTION NEWS

• Vice President Leni Robredo is trending on Twitter for how she handled questions from Prof. Antonio Contreras and the rest of the Manila Times and DZRH panel late Wednesday.
• Contreras offered a salute to Robredo for her “courage” in agreeing to sit down with a critic.
• Former senator Bongbong Marcos will skip today’s presidential forum organized by the KBP due to scheduling conflicts.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Here are the travel destinations in the Philippines that have dropped the negative RT-PCR test requirement for the fully vaccinated.
• These roads in Manila will be closed during the bar exams. Plan your trips accordingly.

NEWS EXPLAINED

• Here’s what we know so far about the Omicron variant’s new strain or sibling, dubbed stealth or BA.2.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• President Rodrigo Duterte is under quarantine after he was exposed to a staffer who has COVID-19. There were 8,702 new cases yesterday.
• Ivermectin has an “antiviral effect” against omicron and other coronavirus variants, according to a Japanese study.
• CNN chief Jeff Zucker has resigned for failure to immediately disclose a romantic relationship with a coworker.
• New Zealand will remain closed to the rest of the world until September, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, as she unveiled a plan to slowly lift one of the world’s toughest pandemic border controls.
• German Cardinal Reinhald Marx, whose diocese was investigated for alleged child sex abuse, said he was in favor of allowing priests to marry.