{"id":27209,"date":"2021-01-22T15:43:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/22\/bating-filipino-covid-safe-greeting-mps-philippines-bill"},"modified":"2021-01-22T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T06:43:23","slug":"bating-filipino-mps-in-philippines-pass-bill-to-create-new-covid-safe-greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27209","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bating Filipino&#8217;: MPs in Philippines pass bill to create new Covid-safe greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contactless greeting will help fight pandemic, say MPs of worst-hit country in south-east Asia, though some people would prefer more action on a vaccine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>House lawmakers in the Philippines have passed a bill to legislate a new, Covid-safe form of greeting in an effort to reduce contact during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>According to the bill approved by the House of Representatives, the new gesture will involve \u201cgracefully laying the palm of the right hand over the centre of one\u2019s chest while simultaneously lowering the head, with eyes either closed or cast down\u201d. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/22\/bating-filipino-covid-safe-greeting-mps-philippines-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contactless greeting will help fight pandemic, say MPs of worst-hit country in south-east Asia, though some people would prefer more action on a vaccineCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHouse lawmakers in the Philippines have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-philippines"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27210,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27209\/revisions\/27210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}