IATF relaxes travel restrictions between GCQ, MGCQ areas

The government’s COVID-19 task force has allowed travel between areas under general community quarantine (GCQ) and modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) regardless of purpose.

In a resolution approved on Thursday, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) said the interzonal movement of persons not authorized outside of residences (non-APOR) between GCQ and MGCQ areas for any purpose shall be permitted, subject to the regulations imposed by the local government unit concerned.

In the case of Boracay Island, the regulations will come from the Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force.

The IATF also allowed the intrazonal movement of non-APOR across areas placed under GCQ or MGCQ and the interzonal movement of non-APOR between areas placed under MGCQ and the new normal.

Those considered APOR are health and emergency frontline services personnel, government officials and frontline personnel, duly-authorized humanitarian assistance actors, and persons traveling for medical or humanitarian reasons.

The list also includes persons going to the airport for travel abroad, anyone crossing zones for work or permitted businesses and going back home, returning overseas Filipinos and other persons transported through the efforts of the national government. — RSJ, GMA News