GUIDE:What's the difference between ECQ and GCQ?
The Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) approved Resolution No. 29 on Monday, which determines which areas will continue to be under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) until May 15 and which ones will be under the general community quarantine (GCQ) beginning May 1.
In the said resolution, it was mentioned that the places that will remain under ECQ until May 15 are NCR, Central Luzon (except Aurora), Calabarzon, Pangasinan, Benguet (including Baguio City), Iloilo, Cebu, and Davao City.
And according to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, places not included under the ECQ are automatically covered by the GCQ - or what he referred to as the 'new normal'.
What then is the difference between ECQ and GCQ?
In general, public movement in areas under GCQ is less restricted compared to the ones under ECQ.
Under the ECQ, public transportation systems are suspended and only businesses offering essential goods and services are allowed to operate.
While under the GCQ, public transportation is allowed but in reduced capacity and 50-100% of select establishments will be open, subject to health standards.
The difference between ECQ and GCQ / Source: PNP
So, in case you're wondering which specific business establishments will be allowed to operate under ECQ and GCQ, you may refer to the detailed lists below.
Industries ALLOWED to operate both under ECQ and GCQ are the following:
1) Hospitals and medical clinics
2) Dental and EENT clinics (with strict health standards)
3) Agriculture and fisheries (including manufacturing of feeds, fertilizers, and pesticides)
4) Manufacturing and processing factories of basic food products, essential products, medicines, and medical supplies (including manufacturing of raw materials, inputs, and packaging)
5) Food preparations and water refilling stations
6) Banks and capital markets
7) Power, energy, water, IT and telecommunications supplies and facilities, waste disposal services and technical services to above utilities
8) Retail establishments (groceries, supermarkets, hypermarkets, convenience stores, public markets, pharmacies, and drug stores)
9) Logistics service providers (cargo handling, warehousing, trucking, freight forwarding, and shipping line)
10) Delivery services transporting food, water, medicine, pet food, hardware products, clothing and accessories, office supplies and other basic necessities (whether or not e-commerce platform, in-house or outsourced)
11) Electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply
12) Postal and courier activities
13) Water collection, treatment, and supply
14) Waste collection, treatment, and disposal activities except materials recovery (junk shop)
15) Sewerage (except emptying of septic tanks)
16) Veterinary activities
17) Repair and installation of machinery and equipment
18) Repair of computers and personal household goods
19) Services to buildings and landscape activities (except landscape care)
20) Employment activities (manpower services for essential activities)
21) Security and investigation activities
22) Programming and broadcasting activities
23) Rental and leasing activities (except for entertainment/mass gathering purposes)
24) Accommodation (used as quarantine facilities for overseas Filipino workers and overseas Filipinos, as well as temporary accommodation for essential industries such as healthcare facilities, banks, BPOs, exporters and other frontline service sectors)
25) Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas
26) Gasoline stations
27) Laundry shops (including self-service)
28) Funeral services
29) Export companies (with temporary accommodation and shuttle services; work from home arrangements)
30) Business process outsourcing companies (with temporary accommodation and shuttle services; work from home arrangements)
31) Mining and quarrying
Source: Pexels
Industries or establishments ALLOWED during GCQ, but PROHIBITED during ECQ:
1) Manufacturing activities of the following:
-Beverages (non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks)
-Cement and steel
-Electrical machinery
-Wood products, furniture
-Non-metallic products
-Textile/wearing apparels
-Tobacco products
-Paper and paper products
-Rubber and plastic products
-Coke and refined petroleum products
-Other non-metallic mineral products
-Computer, electronic and optical products
-Electrical equipment
-Machinery and equipment
-Motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers
-Other transport equipment
2) Malls and commercial centers (including hardware stores, clothing, and accessories and non-leisure stores)
3) Barbershops, salons, spas, and other personal care industries (with strict health standards)
4) Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
5) Construction and Build, Build, Build activities
6) Forestry and logging
7) Publishing activities
8) Motion picture, video and television program production, sound recording and music publishing activities
9) Advertising and market research
10) Real estate activities (except real estate buying and selling)
11) Office administrative, office support, and other business activities
12) Legal and accounting
13) Insurance, reinsurance, and pension funding (except compulsory social security)
14) Architecture and engineering activities, technical testing and analysis
15) Scientific and research development
16) Other professional, scientific and technical activities
17) Social work activities without accommodation
18) Government office (frontline offices)
Source: Pexels
The following activities and establishments remain PROHIBITED or should be CLOSED both during ECQ and GCQ:
1) Mass gatherings
2) Gyms/fitness studios and sports facilities
3) Libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural activities
4) Travel agency, tour operator, reservation service and related activities
5) Gambling and betting activities
6) Activities of membership organizations
Under the GCQ, malls are allowed to operate, but only select businesses/stores will be open to serve the public. And, strict safety protocols will be implemented both for mall-goers and the mall employees.
Source: Pexels
Establishments ALLOWED to operate in MALLS under the GCQ:
1. Supermarkets
2. Drugstores
3. Banks
4. Laundry Service
5. Restaurants (for take-out and delivery only
6. Hardware
Guidelines for mall operations:
1. Only people aged 21 to 59, who appear to be in good health, will be allowed to enter the malls, and they must present their IDs.
2. There will be mandatory temperature checks.
3. Everyone is obliged to sanitize his or her hands with alcohol upon entering the mall.
4. The number of people inside the mall will be limited.
We hope these lists enlightened you as to whether which businesses and activities are allowed and prohibited during ECQ and GCQ.
For more updates on the Coronavirus Disease pandemic and the enhanced community quarantine, visit GMA's COVID-19 page and ECQ page.
And for more lifestyle content, head out to GMA's Lifestyle page.
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