Let's Do The News! (December 19, 2020)

  

- Over 1,100 public schools across the Philippines are nominated for dry run of face-to-face classes.

- The cryptocurrency bitcoin reaches another record high for the first time, traded above $20,000.

- DOLE Secretary Silvestre Bello III floated a proposal to hike the minimum wage of household workers in the Philippines to 6,000 pesos a month.

- Health Secretary Francisco Duque III has been told by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to respond to allegations that he's responsible for losing the country millions of doses from Pfizer's potential COVID-19 vaccine.

- The US FDA approves Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the country.

- US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife to publicly receive COVID-19 vaccine.

- French prosecutors say a modeling agent and a former associate of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been placed under formal investigation.

- Apple placed one of its Taiwanese sub-contractors under probation following unrest at a factory in India.

TTFN.