Filipino student bags international literary award for story on mental health
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, February 19) A Filipino student won recognition at the 2020 International Literary Prize of the UK-based Hammond House Publishing, with his short story chosen as one of the winning entries under the Editor s Choice category.
Christian Andrei Laplap, a University of the Philippines Cebu student, received the award for his piece The Oddity That Is Them which tackles mental health. This was confirmed by UP Cebu in a press release on Wednesday.
According to UP Cebu, the winning literary works will be published in the annual Hammond House anthologies, expected to be released this February.
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+ February 19, 2021 LOCAL health experts are looking into the possibility that Davao Region s new variant cases may not have acquired the coronavirus from a human source but it may have simply mutated naturally into a B.1.1.7. variant or the UK variant.
Hence, the public is strongly advised to follow the minimum health protocols to stop the further spread of the virus and its mutation.
In the Kapihan sa Davnor on February 17, 2021, Dr. Arnel Florendo, chief of Tagum City Health Office (CHO), said the UK variant has only been discovered in the UK because they have the capability to detect.
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The Duterte government will also face challenges in implementing disease preventing strategies it has struggled to keep up with since the start of the pandemic