Here's What You Can Expect with ECQ Season 2 from March 29 to April 4

It feels like a nightmare, but Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal is back to the strictest Enhanced Community Quarantine or ECQ effective 12:00 AM of Monday, March 29, 2021 to 11:59 PM of Sunday, April 4. This, after the recent spike in COVID-19 cases.

Unlike Metro Manila’s previous trip to ECQ-land, the IATF has revised the guidelines. Here’s what you can expect:

• No malls except for essential stores such as groceries, pharmacies, and hardware.
• Restaurants are closed except for takeout and delivery only.
• Businesses with full operational capacity: public and private hospitals; health, emergency, and frontline services, manufacturing of medicine, medical equipment; agriculture, forestry fishery workers including farmers; delivery and courier services of essential goods such as food and medicine.
• Businesses with 50 percent operating capacity: private establishments catering to essential goods and services; media establishments (based on total permanent staff complement); workers accredited by the DOTr.
• Businesses with skeletal workforces: dental clinics, optometry clinics, pharmacies, drug stores; veterinary clinics; banks and money transfer services; telecommunications companies including internet service providers, cable television providers; all other manufacturing companies and suppliers; funeral and embalming services; security personnel; real-estate (limited leasing only); capital markets; water supply and sanitation services/facilities; energy and power companies; airlines; post office, BPOs, export businesses, printing presses; repair of machinery and equipment including car and motorcycle dealerships
• Curfew is set at 6 PM to 5 AM except for APORs, cargo vehicles, and public transportation.
• Public transportation, whether road, rail, maritime, and aviation is allowed to operate following capacities and protocols set by the DOTr.
• Strict home quarantine for all households except for APORs, work in allowed industries and offices, and those accessing essential goods/services. 
• Not allowed to go out are below 18 years old or above 65 years old, pregnant women, people with immunodeficiencies (except when accessing basic goods and services or for work at allowed industries and offices).