Types of Community Quarantine

Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ)

• Minimum public health standards shall be complied with at all times.

• Strict home quarantine shall be observed in all households.

• The PNP retains its authority to conduct inspection procedures in checkpoints only for ensuring that protocols are observed.

Movement of Persons

Residents can only step out to access essential goods and services and work in permitted offices or establishments.

Persons not allowed to go outside*

• Persons below 21 years old

• Persons 60 years old and above

• Persons with disability and other health risks

• Pregnant women

• Any person who resides with the aforementioned

Persons allowed to travel

• Bearers of IATF IDs

• Bearers of bona fide IDs issued by permitted establishments

• Bearers of RapidPass IDs

• Healthcare workers and other essential employees from permitted establishments

• Pastors, priests, rabbi, imams, and other religious ministers (movement limited to conduct of necrological or funeral rites)

• Payroll managers (and other employees that may be required to process payrolls and print payrolls)

• Security personnel

Except when obtaining essential goods and services, or for work in industries and offices permitted to operate.

Mass Gatherings

Mass gatherings such as but not limited to, movie screenings, concerts, sporting events, and other entertainment activities, community assemblies, religious gatherings, and non-essential work gatherings shall be prohibited. However, gatherings that are essential for the provision of government services or authorized humanitarian activities shall be allowed.

Transportation

Public transportation shall be suspended. This notwithstanding, commissioned shuttle services for employees of permitted offices or establishments, as well as point-to-point transport services provided by the government shall be allowed to operate, giving priority to healthcare workers.

Education

Face-to-face or in-person classes at all levels shall be suspended.

Establishments Allowed to Operate

Full Operational Capacity

• Public and private hospitals;

• Health, emergency and frontline services, including those provided by dialysis centers, chemotherapy centers, and the like;

• Manufacturers of medicines, medical supplies, devices and equipment, including suppliers of input, packaging, and distribution;

• Agriculture, forestry, and fishery and their workers, including farmers, Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs), fisherfolk, and agri-fishery stores, and such other components of the food value chain; and

• Delivery and courier services, whether in-house or outsourced, transporting food, medicine, or other essential goods, including clothing, accessories, hardware, housewares, school and office supplies, as well as pet food and other veterinary products.

50% Operational Capacity

• Private establishments and their employees involved in the provision of essential goods and services, and activities in the value chain related to food, medicine and vitamins production, medical supplies, devices and equipment, and other essential products such as but not limited to soap and detergents, diapers, feminine hygiene products, toilet paper and wet wipes, and disinfectants. Such establishments shall include, but shall not be limited to, public markets, supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, laundry shops, food preparation establishments insofar as take-out and delivery services, and water-refilling stations, unless a higher operational capacity is authorized by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI);

• Media establishments and their total permanent staff complement, inclusive of reporters and other field employees, as registered with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and accredited by the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO); and

• Workers accredited by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to work on utility relocation works, and specified limited works across thirteen (13) railway projects, including replacement works for the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 3

Skeleton Workforce (with alternative work arrangement)

• Other medical, dental, rehabilitation, and optometry clinics, pharmacies or drug stores: Provided that there is strict observance of infection prevention and control protocols. Provided, further, that dental procedures shall be limited to emergency cases only and that the wearing of full Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) by dentists and attendants shall be mandatory; Provided finally that home service therapy for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) shall be allowed;

• Veterinary clinics;

• Banks, money transfer services, including pawnshops only insofar as performing money transfer functions, microfinance institutions, and credit cooperatives, including their armored vehicle services, if any;

• Capital markets, including but not limited to 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;

• Water supply and sanitation services and facilities, including waste disposal services, as well as property management and building utility services;

• Energy and power companies, their third-party contractors and service providers, including employees involved in electric transmission and distribution, electric power plant and line maintenance, electricity market and retail suppliers, as well as those involved in the exploration, operations, trading and delivery of coal, oil, crude or petroleum and by-products (gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, jet oil, kerosene, lubricants), including gasoline stations, refineries and depots or any kind of fuel used to produce electricity;

• Telecommunications companies, internet service providers, cable television providers, including those who perform indirect services such as the technical, sales, and other support personnel, as well as the employees of their third-party contractors doing sales, installation, maintenance and repair works;

• Airline and aircraft maintenance, pilots and crew, and 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;

• Manufacturing companies and suppliers of equipment or products necessary to perform construction works, such as cement and steel;

• The Philippine Postal Corporation, at an operational capacity necessary to maintain the prompt delivery of services to its clients;

• The Philippine Statistics Authority, at an operational capacity necessary to conduct data gathering and survey activities related to COVID-19 and the registration and implementation of the national identification (ID) system;

• Business process outsourcing establishments (BPOs) and export-oriented businesses, including mining and quarrying, with work-from-home, on-site or near site accommodation, or point-to-point shuttling arrangements. For this purpose, BPOs and export-oriented businesses, and their service providers, shall be allowed to install, transport and maintain the necessary on-site and work-from-home equipment, deploy their workers under on-site or near-site accommodation arrangements, or provide point-to-point shuttle service from their near-site accommodations to their offices;

• Essential projects, whether public or private, such as but not limited to quarantine and isolation facilities for Persons under Monitoring (PUMs), and suspect and confirmed COVID-19 patients, facilities for the health sector including those dealing with PUMs, and suspect and confirmed COVID-19 patients, facilities for construction personnel who perform emergency works, flood control, and other disaster risk reduction and rehabilitation works, sewerage projects, water service facilities projects, and digital works. Priority public and private construction projects, defined as those that refer to food production, agriculture, fishery, fish port development, energy, housing, communication, water utilities, manufacturing, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPOs), shall likewise be allowed to operate in accordance with guidelines issued by the DPWH;

• Funeral and embalming services. Provided, that there is shuttle service and/or housing accommodation for their personnel and staff;

• Humanitarian assistance personnel from civil society organizations (CSOs), non-government organizations (NGOs), and United Nations-Humanitarian Country Teams, as well as individuals performing relief operations to augment the government’s response against COVID-19 and other disasters or calamities that may occur. Provided that they are authorized by the appropriate government agency or LGU;

• Pastors, priests, rabbis, imams or such other religious ministers whose movement shall be related to the conduct of necrological or funeral rites. Corollarily, immediate family members of the deceased who died of causes other than COVID-19 shall be allowed to move from their residences to attend the wake or interment of the deceased upon satisfactory proof of their relationship with the latter, fully complying with social distancing measures for the duration of the activity;

• Security personnel

• Printing presses authorized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue or other appropriate agencies to print official receipts and other accountable forms;

• Establishments engaged in repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment, including those engaged in the repair of computers and household fixtures anequipment; and

• Real estate activities limited to leasing only;

For purposes of the foregoing, transit by permitted persons to and from the above establishments anywhere within the area covered by ECQ shall be allowed.

• Agencies and instrumentalities of the government, including GOCCs, as well as LGUs, may operate with a skeleton workforce in combination with other alternative work arrangements as approved by the head of agency unless a different operational capacity is required in agencies providing health and emergency frontline services, border control, or other critical services.

• Agencies and their regional offices in the executive branch shall issue accreditation, office or travel orders, to identify their respective skeleton workforces for critical services operating for the duration of the ECQ. Bona fide IDs issued by the respective agencies shall be sufficient for movement within the contained areas. Skeleton workforces may use official agency vehicles.

• The co-equal or independent authority of the legislature (Senate and the House of Representatives), the judiciary (the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Court of Tax Appeals, Sandiganbayan, and the lower courts), the Office of the Ombudsman, and the Constitutional Commissions to operate and accredit their skeleton workforce, or implement any other alternative work arrangements, is recognized.

• 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, may operate with a skeleton workforce.

Establishments Not Allowed to Operate

No hotels or accommodation establishments shall be allowed to operate, except those accommodating the following:

• For guests who have existing booking accommodations for foreigners as of 17 March 2020 for Luzon and 01 May 2020 for other areas;

• Guests who have existing long-term bookings;

• Distressed Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and stranded Filipinos or foreign nationals;

• Repatriated OFWs in compliance with approved quarantine protocols;

• Non-OFWs who may be required to undergo mandatory facility-based quarantine; and

• Health care workers and other employees from exempted establishments under these Omnibus Guidelines and applicable Memoranda from the Executive Secretary.

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