HEADS UP: Why 2021 is Squid Game Year for Vaccines and Votes (Dec. 28)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Dec. 28:

YEARENDER 2021

• Here are top headlines of the year, which showed how 2021 has become a Squid Game of sorts for vaccines and elective posts for next year’s elections. It’s also the year that the country’s unofficial gossip, Marites, went mainstream.

LIFE KIT

• Is Balik Alindog your 2022 New Year’s Resolution? Again? Here’s how to succeed at being a better version of yourself.
• How do you unlock creativity at work? LEGO’s product boss shows how. More than the arts, it’s about problem-solving and agility.
• Why do you keep eating when you’re full? Here’s what you can do to stop it from being unhealthy.

TRENDING NEWS

• Why did the first days of the MMFF flop when the films in competition had cinemas all to themselves? Twitter thinks there’s more to it than depriving fans of watching “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.
• Ka Leody de Guzman the presidential aspirant took a lot of heat last Christmas for flexing a Noche Buena photo with his family. It actually showed how he's just like us, according to a sociologist.

ELECTION NEWS

• The official list of candidates for president, vice president, senator and party-list lawmaker will be out by Jan. 7, Comelec said as it decides the fate of supposed nuisance bets.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Survivors of Typhoon Odette are falling sick due to dirty water as the death toll from the most destructive storm of 2021 rose to 388.
• The Philippines detected its fourth Omicron variant case, a woman who traveled from the U.S. who was asymptomatic by Christmas Eve. There were 318 new COVID cases yesterday.
• Sen. Sonny Angara filed a bill seeking a P1-million prize for international film festival winners to encourage the movie industry to produce more quality work.
• Weather disasters in 2021 cost the world $170 billion or P8.5 trillion, that’s almost double the Philippines’ national budget for next year, according to a British NGO.