HEADS UP: What's Next for the Community Pantry? (April 21)

Here's a Heads Up from Reportr.World on news that you need to know today, April 21:

COMMUNITY PANTRY

• The Maginhawa community pantry paused operations after its originator, Patricia Non, was red-tagged on social media. She told critics: "don't kill" the movement.
• Community pantries need an LGU permit to ensure compliance with COVID protocols, according to the DILG.
• Mayor Joy Belmonte of Quezon City, where the Maginhawa pantry is located, said she fully supports the initiative.
• CULTURE EXPLAINED: Why diskarte captures the spirit of the community pantry movement.

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• Typhoon Bising will continue to bring rains to parts of Luzon and the Visayas as it hovers off the Philippines' eastern coast. Prepare for possible floods and landslides in areas under storm signals.
• Here's how you can use the Traze app when riding the MRT. It's the railway's contact-tracing platform.
• If you're an employee of the Manny Pangilinan Group, you can avail of quarantine leave if you're COVID positive. That's on top of sick leaves.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• President Rodrigo Duterte has warned China: Drill for oil in the West Philippine Sea and he'll send Navy ships over.
• McDonald's will soon offer a BTS meal and Twitter thinks this collaboration is making Jollibee sad.
• The Philippines will start clinical trials on the use of Ivermectin, an atiparasite, for COVID treatment.
• Podcasts are coming to Facebook. The world's largest social network is looking for audio magic that has proven successful for Clubhouse.
• Climate activist Greta Thunberg has called on rich nations to ensure that poor ones get access to COVID vaccines. The latest prominent voice added to calls for vaccine equity.
• NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with its first flight on the red planet.