HEADS UP: Register to Vote, Don't Let a Coin Toss Decide (Oct. 13)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Oct. 13:

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Shorter curfew hours in Metro Manila starts today, from 12 midnight to 4 a.m. President Rodrigo Duterte is also due to decide this week whether to extend or downgrade Alert Level 4 in the capital region.

2022 ELECTIONS

• Coin toss tiebreakers happen in Philippine elections and drive home the point that you need to register and vote to be heard.
• House Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez proposed banning candidate substitution to stop what he described as a “mockery” of the election process.
• Here’s your guide to Comelec’s satellite offices and schedules for voter registration, which resumes Oct. 11 to 30.

PIXEL WORLD

• Instagram is testing a new feature that will notify users in-app if the app is down. That’s how it is.
• ‘Squid Game’ on Netflix has horrified the world into taking Korean language courses. After BTS, the streaming hit is the new gateway to Halyu.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• President Rodrigo Duterte says blame him, not anyone else, for the lack of vaccines at the start of the year.
• Still doubting the vaccine? To stress his point, Duterte said he would “lead” the delivery of vaccines straight to homes, even at night.
• The Philippines received 924,300 Pfizer vaccines that are intended for minors ahead of the expansion of the vaccination program on Oct. 15.
• Thousands in the Cagayan Valley region reeled from overnight floods as Tropical Storm Maring (Kompasu) headed out of the Philippine Area of Responsibility. At least nine people were dead.
• WHO experts support giving an extra COVID vaccine dose to people with weakened immune systems.