HEADS UP: How to Eat Lechon at Noche Buena Minus the Toxic Diet Guilt (Dec. 22)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Dec. 22.

LIFE KIT

• You can eat whatever you want this Christmas without punishing yourself after. Here’s how you can beat that toxic diet culture.

TYPHOON ODETTE

• The death toll from Typhoon Odette (Rai) hit 375 as desperate survivors pleaded for water and food, which are both running dangerously shot.
• Photos taken by a typhoon survivor showed how Odette turned Siargao’s party district into a wasteland.
• Two senators seeking the vice presidency have urged government to freeze prices of basic goods in Odette-hit areas, even without the declaration of a state of calamity.

ELECTION NEWS

• Comelec has summoned presidential aspirant Bongbong Marcos to answer three disqualification cases filed against him.

GUIDE

• Here are the train schedules in Metro Manila for the Christmas holidays.

CULTURE EXPLAINED

• Here’s how the “Sex and the City” reboot “and Just Like That” broadened representation for women on television.\

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• A low pressure area with little chance of intensifying into a tropical depression could approach Mindanao this Christmas weekend, PAGASA said, as it advised the public to prepare.
• Free transfers via InstaPay and PESONet will end on Dec. 31, except for GrabPay, according to the Bangko Sentral, which operates the two platforms.
• There were 168 new COVID cases in the Philippines yesterday, a new record low of the year ahead of the Christmas weekend.
• Moderna is confident that its booster shot works against the Omicron variant, admitting at the same time that protection is weaker after just two doses.
• Omicron is now the dominant coronavirus strain the U.S., underscoring how fast it spreads.
• HBO Max has released the trailer for the ‘Harry Potter’ reunion special airing on New Year’s Day to give the world some magic as it enters the third year of the pandemic.