The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) expanded the list of industries allowed to operate and workers permitted to go out during the current enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) implementation.
IATF-EID Resolution No. 131 dated August 5 considered as authorized persons outside of residence (APOR) contractors in port terminals and ancillary services such as drivers, conductors, and terminal workers.
Also included are contractors, subcontractors, and consultants of the Department of Transportation’s (DOTR) Build, Build, Build, projects.
The authorized to operate are liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stations or workers, printing establishments contracted by government agencies, and lawyers when required to provide on-site legal representation.
Below is the comprehensive list of APORs:
1. Persons traveling to access essential goods and services
– to buy groceries and medicines, and availing of DFA consular services with confirmed appointments
– for medical or humanitarian reasons, including those leaving their residence to be vaccinated (with proof of schedule)
Employees/workers of the following:
2. Hospitals, health, emergency, and frontline services
3. Manufacturers of medicines and vitamins, medical supplies, devices, and equipment
4. Industries involved in agriculture
5. Logistics service providers
6. Essential and priority construction projects (public or private)
7. Involved in manufacturing related to food/essential goods
8. Involved in manufacturing, distribution, supply of
equipment/products for construction/maintenance work
9. Essential retail trade and service establishments (public markets, groceries, drug stores, hardware, laundry shops, water-refilling stations)
10. Food preparation establishments
11. Public and private financial service providers
12. BPOs, and export-oriented businesses
13. Public transport providers/public utility vehicle operators
14. Media establishments
15. Dental (emergency cases only), rehabilitation, optometry, and other medical clinics for the treatment of illnesses or injuries
16. Veterinary clinics
17. Banks, and money transfer services
18. Capital markets, including BSP, SEC, PSE
19. Water utilities including third-party contractors/service providers, building utility services, janitorial/sanitation services
20. Energy sector establishments
21. Telecom companies, internet service providers, cable television providers
22. Airline and aircraft maintenance
23. Funeral and embalming services
24. Security personnel licensed by the PNP
25. Printing establishments authorized by govt agencies
26. Repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment for households and establishments permitted to operate
27. Repair and maintenance of motorized and non-motorized vehicles
28. Leasing of real and personal properties
29. Recruitment and placement sector
30. Teachers, professors, and other staff
31. Lawyers required to provide on-site legal representation
32. All other establishments, only if necessary for the buying and
selling of consumer goods or services via the internet
33. Agencies and instrumentalities of the gov’t required to
work on-site/official travel
34. Accredited foreign diplomatic missions and int’l organizations
35. Hotels and accommodations allowed to operate
36. Pastors, priests, rabbis, imams, or other religious ministers and their assistants conducting religious services through online video recording and transmission
37. Processing of payroll
38. Duly authorized humanitarian assistance actors
39. Persons going to and from the airport, including OFWs
carrying OECs
40. Repatriated OFWs or returning OFs en route to their final destination
41. Workers of private shuttle services
Report from Mela Lesmoras/AG-rir
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