Who are allowed to travel to and from ECQ areas?

By Prince Golez

Four areas are currently under the most restrictive enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) due to rising Covid-19 cases attributed to the delta variant.

Metro Manila has been placed under ECQ until August 20 while Laguna, Iloilo City, and Cagayan de Oro City are put under the same quarantine classification until August 15.

During this period, only those considered authorized persons outside residence (APORs) are allowed to leave their homes.

These include the following:

-Persons traveling to access essential goods and services

-Employees/workers of public and private hospitals, health, emergency, and frontline services

-Employees/workers of manufacturers of medicines and vitamins, medical supplies, devices, and equipment

-Employees/workers in industries involved in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and such other components of the food value chain

-Employees/workers of logistics service providers

-Employees/workers in essential and priority construction projects

-Employees/workers involved in manufacturing related to food and other essential goods

-Employees/workers involved in the manufacturing, distribution, and/or supply of equipment or products necessary to perform construction or maintenance work

-Employees/workers in essential retail trade and service establishments

-Employees/workers in food preparation establishments

-Employees/workers in public and private financial service providers involved in the distribution of government grants and amelioration subsidies

-Employees/workers in business process outsourcing establishments, export-oriented businesses, including mining, and quarrying activities

-Public transport providers and public utility vehicle operators, and their workers

-Employees/workers in media establishments and their total permanent staff complement

-Employees/workers providing dental (emergency cases only), rehabilitation, optometry, and other medical clinics for the treatment of illnesses or injuries

-Employees/workers in veterinary clinics

-Employees/workers in banks, money transfer services, including pawn shops (only for money transfer functions), microfinance institutions, and credit cooperatives, including their armored vehicle services

-Employees/workers in capital markets, including the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Securities and Exchange Commission, Philippine Stock Exchange, Philippine Dealing and Exchange Corporation, Philippine Securities Settlement Corporation, and Philippine Depository and Trust Corporation

-Employees/workers of water utilities including their third-party contractors and service providers, building utility services, janitorial/sanitation services, and facilities, including waste disposal services, and property management services

-Employees/workers in energy sector establishments and their third-party contractors and service providers

-Employees/workers in telecommunications companies, internet service providers, cable television providers, including those who perform indirect services

-Employees/workers in airline and aircraft maintenance, pilots and crew, including employees of aviation schools for purposes of the pilot’s recurrent training for flight proficiency and type rating using simulator facilities; and ship captains and crew, including shipyard operations and repair

-Employees/workers in funeral and embalming services

-Security personnel licensed by the Philippine National Police-Supervisory Office for Security and Investigation Agencies

-Employees/workers of printing establishments authorized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue and those contracted by other government agencies

-Employees/workers involved in the repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment, for households and establishments

-Employees/workers involved in the repair and maintenance of motorized and non-motorized vehicles, including the sale of spare parts

-Employees/workers in the leasing of real and personal properties

-Employees/workers in the recruitment and placement sector

-Teachers, professors, and other staff for purposes of conducting online/offline, and flexible classes, completion of grades, and processing of student credentials, requirements, and documents

-Lawyers only when required to provide on-site legal representation necessary to protect rights of persons, whether natural or juridical

-Employees/workers of all other establishments, only if necessary for the buying and selling of consumer goods or services via the internet in behalf of such establishment

-Employees/workers in agencies and instrumentalities of the government required to work on-site, including government officials and employees on official travel

-Officials and employees of foreign diplomatic missions and international organizations accredited by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), whenever performing diplomatic functions and subject to the guidelines issued by the DFA

-Employees/workers of hotels and accommodation establishments allowed to operate during ECQ under pertinent rules of the Department of Tourism

-Pastors, priests, rabbis, imams, or other religious ministers and their assistants conducting religious services through online video recording and transmission, or presiding over necrological services, wakes, inurnment, and funerals

-Payroll managers and other employees required for the processing of payroll

-Duly authorized humanitarian assistance actors, especially those transporting medical supplies and laboratory specimens related to Covid-19, and other relief and humanitarian assistance

-Persons going to and from the airport, including overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) carrying Overseas Employment Certificates

-Repatriated OFWs or returning overseas Filipinos who have been issued a Bureau of Quarantine/Department of Health quarantine certificate en route to their final destination in the Philippines

-Employees/workers of private shuttle services catering to establishments

Those not on the list must remain at home.

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