HEADS UP: How to be a TikTok Star in 10 Seconds? Ask Joshua Garcia (Dec. 24)

Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news you need to know today, Dec. 24:

TRENDING NEWS

• A TikTok star is born. Here’s how Joshua Garcia did it with a single 10-second video.
• A priest named Ondoy went viral for celebrating mass during Typhoon Odette in Bohol.

CULTURE EXPLAINED

• Labor inequity in the household is heightened during Christmas, when men think worrying about the holidays is a woman’s job. This has to change.

WEATHER

• Thelow pressure area that was tracking Mindanao from the Pacific Ocean has dissipated, giving typhoon-weary Filipinos a break from stormy weather during the Christmas weekend.

ELECTION NEWS

• Here’s what you need to know about the election liquor ban, in case you are planning a few drinks before or after the elections.

TYPHOON ODETTE

• Cloud 9 is no more, so is much of Siargao after Typhoon Odette. From the ruins, business owners look to rebuild as they recover from shock.
• Queen Elizabeth of the UK has sent her condolences to the Philippines over the destruction from Typhoon Odette.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The Philippines’ FDA has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on kids aged 5 to 11.
• The FDA also issued the first emergency use authorization for an anti-COVID pill in the Philippines to Molnarz, a brand of Mulnupiravir.
• You are less likely to be hospitalized if infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant compared to Delta, two studies in Britain showed.
• Pfizer’s anti-COVID pill Paxlovid has been cleared for use in the U.S. as cases spike due to the Omicron variant.
• Here are the many ways that children are bearing the brunt of the pandemic, according to two Vatican studies.
• Farmers in China are losing land to their leaders’ ambition to host the Winter Olympics and showcase its green energy capability.