HEADS UP: What If Your Face Shield is 'Fake'? (May 25)

Here's a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, May 25:

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Face shields can be faked, if you look at it from a law enforcement lens. For public health experts, it’s how you wear that face covering that matters.
• Attention motorists, here are the NLEX and SCTEX lane closures in the last week of May.

WEATHER EXPLAINED

• Thunderstorms are happening more often, one was even mistaken for a volcanic eruption. Here’s what you need to know about the weather event.

TRENDING NEWS

• #JusticeForEbengMayor was trending yesterday with calls for justice for a transman who was raped in killed in Quezon City. The crime happened on the same week as the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism, and Transphobia

MANILA IN A MINUTE

• These hotels offer staycation packages for a quarantine escape that stays within the NCR Plus Bubble.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The Philippines will receive its first shipment of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine by late June, 300,000 doses according to Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel Romualdez.
• How powerful are dogs’ sense of smell, a study shows that they can detect the scent of a person with COVID-19.
• In Quezon City, 51 people turned positive for the coronavirus after a pool party that highlighted the risk of superspreader events.
• Dating apps like Tinder and Bumble have rolled out a feature that will display a person’s vaccine status. Does it matter for you to swipe right?
• CHED said colleges and universities should retrofit campuses with COVID safety gear to prepare for the resumption of face-to-face classes.
• The WHO in the Philippines said withholding the names of vaccine brands when calling on the public to get immunized could help avoid superspreaders.
• A SWS survey showed that six in 10 Filipinos prefer to get a COVID-19 vaccine that was made in the U.S.