REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES CITY OF ILOILO OFFICE OF THE CITY MAYOR 7th Floor New City Hall Building, Plaza Libertad, Iloilo City 5000 Fax (033)335-0689, Email:
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 53 Series of 2021
AN ORDER PROVIDING FOR GUIDELINES ON THE EXTENDED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MODIFIED ENHANCED COMMUNITY QUARANTINE IN ILOILO CITY EFFECTIVE 12:00 AM OF JUNE 16, 2021 UNTIL 11:59 PM OF JUNE 30, 2021, UNLESS OTHERWISE MODIFIED OR EXTENDED AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES WHEREAS, Section 16 of the Republic Act 7160 provides that every local government unit shall exercise the powers expressly granted, those necessarily implied therefrom, as well as powers necessary, appropriate, or incidental for its efficient and effective governance, and those which are essential to the promotion of the general welfare. Every local government shall ensure and promote health and safety of its inhabitants; WHEREAS, this general welfare clause delegates in statutory form the police power to a local government unit which must be responsive, in the interest of common welfare, to the changing conditions and developing needs of growing communities, especially during this continuing health crisis brought by COVID-19 pandemic; WHEREAS, COVID-19 remains a deadly threat to the City of Iloilo albeit the aggressive vaccination roll-out on the ground as the rate of confirmed positive cases has been moving an upward trend with mortality being recorded. Its high risk of transmission continues to imperil particularly those who have yet to be inoculated due to limited supply of vaccine doses; WHEREAS, being the deadliest plague, which continues to ravage the entire country, the President of the Republic of the Philippines issued Proclamation 1021 extending the State of Calamity until September 12, 2021; WHEREAS, the Iloilo City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit has recorded a sharp rise and seemingly exponential upward trend in the confirmed positive cases during the first and second week of May 2021 prompting the Iloilo City Local Government to make a fervent appeal to IATF, National Task Force Against COVID-19 and Department of the Interior and Local Government to escalate the community quarantine classification to Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ); WHEREAS, on May 22, 2021 the National IATF issued and published in the Official Gazette1 on May 23, 2021 through Resolution No. 116-C that “Iloilo City shall be escalated to Modified
Enhanced Community Quarantine beginning May 23, 2021, until May 31, 2021 xxx without prejudice to [its] further reclassification as may be warranted and the declaration of localized Enhanced Community Quarantine in critical areas.” ;
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WHEREAS, the exigency of circumstances with the sustained high daily case count, exhaustive massive testing and concomitant strict isolation, as well as the imposition of strictest additional health intervention measures, rationally make it highly ill-considered to ease our quarantine classification; WHEREAS, according to DOH COVID 19 Regional Case Bulletin No. 443, Iloilo City logged a total of 8,980 cases as of June 13, 2021 with total active cases of 2,663 and total mortality of 227 cases; WHEREAS, President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, June 14, 2021 announced that Iloilo City will remain under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine; WHEREAS, on June 15, 2021, the National IATF issued and published in the Official Gazette2 Resolution No. 121, s. 2021 extending the implementation of Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine [in Iloilo City] until June 30, 2021 xxx without prejudice to [its] further reclassification
as may be warranted and the declaration of localized Enhanced Community Quarantine in critical areas.”
WHEREAS, however, in view of resuscitating the economy of the city and addressing the fiscal needs of the constituents, the Local Chief Executive together with the Iloilo City COVID Team have concluded that it is best to open more establishments provided that minimum health protocols are strictly followed at all times; WHEREAS, to restore more jobs in labor-intensive industries, ease the economic burden of displaced workers and address the growing number of joblessness, poverty, and hunger incidence, without compromising the safety and fight against COVID-19, and upon consultation with all stakeholders, IATF Resolution No. 113 dated 29 April 2021 allowed “[f]ood preparation establishments such as commissaries, restaurants, and eateries [to] resume their indoor dine-in services in areas under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine at an initial venue or seating capacity of ten percent (10%),” while “[b]eauty salons, beauty parlors, barbershops, and nail spas may resume operations at an initial venue or seating capacity of thirty percent (30%);” and that said establishments may further operate beyond the limitation prescribed, provided that they comply with the DOLE-DOH-DILG-DOT-DTI Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) No. 21-01, Series of 2021 or the Implementing Guidelines of the Safety Seal Certification Program; WHEREAS, the Department of Trade and Industry, prescribed guidelines in Memorandum Circular No. 21-15, s. 2021, to allow additional business establishments, persons or activities to operate, work or be undertaken in areas placed under Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ); WHEREAS, the Inter Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases Revised Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines with Amendments as of May 20, 2021, to prevent and/or minimize the local spread of emerging infectious diseases in the country through the establishment or reinforcement of a system in screening possible patients infected with emerging infectious diseases, contact tracing, identification of the mode of exposure to the virus, and implementation of effective quarantine and proper isolation procedures; WHEREAS, while the local government of Iloilo City and the members of Iloilo City COVID team are forced to make decisions protecting the right to life and provide for the right to health of the citizens implementing health intervention measures adaptive to radical changes of COVID-19 transmission, it cannot be overemphasized that public awareness, vigilance, cooperation, and full adherence to public health protocols remain vital in a community-wide responses to effectively curb down the unprecedented surge in our cases; NOW, THEREFORE, I, JERRY P. TREÑAS, by virtue of the power vested in me by law as City Mayor of lloilo City, do hereby order: 2
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SECTION 1. PERIOD OF THE EXTENDED IMPLEMENTATION OF MECQ IN ILOILO CITY. The Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) in Iloilo City shall be from 12:00 AM of June 16, 2021, up to 11:59 PM of 30 June 2021, until the said period is extended or lifted, upon the recommendation of the Iloilo City COVID Team, and approved by the Inter Agency Task Force on the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF). SECTION 2. CURFEW. All persons shall observe the curfew in effect within Iloilo city which is from 10:00PM up to 4:00AM for the period covered by the MECQ, until the same is lifted or extended by the Iloilo City Government, upon the recommendation of the Iloilo City COVID-19 Team; except those whose work arrangements in BPOs / KPOs, warehouses and logistics (and similar businesses), ports, arrastre, food manufacturing, storage and preservation, hospitals, media, and other similar business or occupations that require employees to go to work after the curfew hours. SECTION 3. LIFTING OF BORDER CONTROL, QUARANTINE PASS REQUIREMENTS, AND TRAVEL MORATORIUM. Beginning 12:01 A.M. of June 16, 2021, the border controls along the city borders and requirement of quarantine passes for the ingress and egress to barangays and establishments within Iloilo City shall be lifted. This is without prejudice to any requirement which may be imposed by the neighboring provinces and cities within Western Visayas upon individuals entering their jurisdiction and without prejudice to the adoption of this measure to regulate movement of persons in areas declared under surgical lockdown. The travel moratorium on the inbound and outbound travel of persons from Negros Island to Iloilo City and vice versa is likewise lifted. For this purpose, all prior issuances inconsistent with the herein provisions are likewise repealed, without prejudice to the Iloilo City Government’s imposition of travel requirements and implementation of the S-Pass Travel System for persons traveling from areas outside Western Visayas. SECTION 4. LIMITED MOVEMENT OF VULNERABLE SECTORS. The following persons shall belong to the vulnerable sectors: (1) Persons more than (65) years of age; (2) Persons below 18 years of age; (3) Pregnant women; (4) Persons with comorbidities, immune-deficiencies and other risk factors; and (5) Persons with disabilities. (A) Those vulnerable sectors shall be required to remain in their residences at all times, except when indispensable under the circumstances for obtaining essential goods and services from permitted establishments or for work in permitted industries and offices; other essentials; to seek medical or clinical care; or go to the hospital; or to seek medical consultation. (B) Persons who live with the persons mentioned herein shall be allowed outside of their residence to buy food, medicines, other essentials, seeking medical or clinical care, going to the hospital, seeking medical consultation and to work for the offices, industries, and establishments mentioned in Section 7 hereof; except if they are either confined in a COVID-19 isolation facility or quarantine facility; (C) The individuals aged (18) years and below and (65) years and above may not enter malls and shopping centers except when indispensable under the circumstances for obtaining essential goods and services or for work in establishments located therein until otherwise modified through subsequent issuances of the IATF. SECTION 5. OPERATION OF HOTELS AND ACCOMMODATION ESTABLISHMENTS. Only hotels or accommodation establishments with valid DOT Accreditation shall be allowed to accommodate guests and clients for legitimate purposes under a state of a public health emergency.
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The operations of such hotels and accommodation establishments, as well as ancillary establishments within their premises such as restaurants, cafés, gyms, spas, function halls, and the like, shall be subject to latest guidelines issued by the Department of Tourism and the IATF. Swimming pools and other similar swimming amenities of resorts, hotels, accommodation establishments and condominiums shall remain closed to the public. (Category II, DTI
Memorandum Circular No. 21-15, s. 2021: Additional Business Establishments, Persons or Activities Allowed to Operate in Areas Placed Under MECQ in relation to the IATF Omnibus Guidelines as of May 20, 2021) SECTION 6. PROHIBITION IN THE PUBLIC CONSUMPTION OF LIQUOR. The consumption in public of any form of liquor or alcoholic beverages, or any alcoholic drink containing a specific percentage of alcohol by volume or weight which may be in the form of whisky, brandy, gin, rum, cordial, liquor, cocktail, wine, champagne, vermouth, basi, tuba, saki, beer, ale, stout, and the like shall be ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED, beginning 12:00 A.M. of June 16, 2021 unless otherwise extended or lifted earlier. However, the sale of liquor or alcoholic beverages shall be allowable from 8:00 A.M.to 6:00 P.M. only, while the private consumption thereof will only be permitted for individuals within their households and without forming congregations or inviting outside guests. Establishments, convenience stores, groceries, sari-sari stores, and other similar businesses who shall violate the prohibition on the sale of liquor, whether directly or indirectly shall entitle the City Government to mete out the appropriate penalties provided under the Iloilo City Tax Code. All persons who are found to have violated the protocols and endanger the lives of the residents of Iloilo City shall face the appropriate administrative and / or criminal charges. In cases of barangay lockdowns, the sale and consumption of liquor shall be prohibited absolutely in areas covered by any barangay lockdown order. SECTION 7. REOPENING OF ILOILO ESPLANADES; PLAYGROUNDS AND COURTS IN ALL PUBLIC PLAZAS. The Iloilo Esplanades shall be open to the public beginning 12:01 A.M. of June 16, 2021. Playgrounds and courts located in public plazas shall likewise be open except for activities that entail the premises as venue for direct and indirect contact sports. Individual outdoor exercises such as outdoor walks, jogging, running or biking, are allowed. Provided that the minimum public health standards and precautions such as the wearing of face masks, and the maintenance of social distancing protocols are observed. SECTION 8. MASS GATHERINGS. Gatherings outside of residences and undertaken for nonessential purposes, shall be prohibited for the duration of the MECQ implementation in Iloilo City. Gatherings at residences with any person outside of one’s immediate household shall likewise be prohibited. However, gatherings that are essential for the provision of health services, government services, or humanitarian activities authorized by the appropriate government agency or instrumentality shall be allowed. Religious denominations may conduct face-to-face mass/worship services and activities with a maximum attendance of a thirty percent (30%) seating capacity but are still strongly encouraged to adopt virtual means to pursue the same. Provided, the congregation shall be strictly limited within the church building/religious venue, discouraging churchgoers/attendees to stay or loiter outside the building/venue for the duration of the mass/worship service or religious activity. Weddings and baptisms, which cover only the conduct of ceremonies and/or rites, are hereby allowed provided that attendees thereto are confined to relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity and affinity and do not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the venue capacity or 50 pax, whichever is lower.
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Across all settings, religious denominations must strictly observe the public health standards and protocols being implemented by the Iloilo City Government and local health authorities while a lower number of attendees than being allowed hereof is highly encouraged. SECTION 9. GUIDELINES ON THE CONDUCT OF WAKES, BURIAL AND OTHER NECROLOGICAL SERVICES. Gatherings for wakes, inurnment, funerals for those who died of causes other than COVID-19 may be allowed, provided that the same shall be limited to immediate family members (first-degree relatives) only if being conducted at the residences. If the wakes, inurnment, and funerals shall be conducted at the funeral homes, funeral parlors or mortuaries, satisfactory proof of the relationship with the deceased and the attendees shall be inspected by the management. In all cases, full compliance with the prescribed minimum public health standards for the duration of the activity must be strictly observed. In all cases, the maximum number of days for the conduct of wakes shall be three (3) days from the time the remains of the deceased are first displayed no matter whether the family or significant others of the deceased choose more than one venue for the same. SECTION 10. HOME QUARANTINE FOR COVID-19 POSITIVE INDIVIDUALS. Confirmed COVID-19 positive individuals may be allowed to observe isolation or quarantine at home, provided that home arrangements allow isolation from other family members, subject to the approval of the District Medical Officers, taking into consideration the inspection and recommendation of BHERTs and/or Barangay Officials. SECTION 11. MANAGEMENT OF CLOSE CONTACT INDIVIDUALS. All individuals who have been tagged as close contacts of confirmed COVID-19 positive persons are mandated to undergo a strict fourteen (14)- day quarantine. If during said period, said individual experiences any sign or symptom related to COVID-19, he/she must immediately contact representatives of the local health authorities such as District Medical Health Officers, Barangay Health Emergency Response Team workers (BHERTs), Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) and/or officers and staff of the Iloilo City Health Office; and submit themselves for RT-PCR testing. Otherwise, he/she will be given clearance from quarantine after completing the required 14-day quarantine. This is without prejudice to an asymptomatic individual subjecting himself to RT-PCR testing of his own accord as supervised by the Iloilo City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit. SECTION 12. FACE-TO-FACE CLASSES; SUSPENDED. Face-to-face or in-person classes shall remain suspended. The education sector shall operate in accordance with the guidelines of the CHED for higher education, TESDA for technical vocational education and training, DepEd for basic education. Review centers may be allowed to operate under the capacities prescribed under Section 13 (B), while enjoining virtual lectures among attendees. SECTION 13. ALLOWED INDUSTRIES AND ACTIVITIES. During the period of the MECQ, unless modified by the IATF, the following shall be allowed pursuant to DTI Memorandum Circular No. 21-15, s. 20213 in relation to IATF Revised Omnibus Guidelines on the Implementation of Community Quarantine in the Philippines, to subject to compliance with the health standards and response measures: Subject to compliance with the minimum public health and safety standards and protocols and the relevant issuances and other pertinent issuances, only the following business private establishments, persons, or activities shall be allowed to operate on-site with the following prescribed capacities:
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DTI Memorandum Circular No. 21-15, s. 2021: Additional Business Establishments, Persons or Activities Allowed to Operate in Areas Placed Under MECQ 5
A. With full on-site capacity: 1. Public and private hospitals Health, emergency and frontline services, including those provided by dialysis centers, chemotherapy centers, HMOs, health insurance providers, disaster risk reduction management officers, and public safety officers and the like; 2. Manufacturers of medicines and vitamins, medical supplies, devices and equipment, including suppliers of input, packaging, and distribution 3. Industries involved in agriculture (crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock and poultry), forestry, fishery, and such other components of the food value chain and their workers, including farmers and fisher folks; 4. Logistics service providers (delivery and courier services; cargo handling; warehousing; trucking; freight forwarding; shipping, port and terminal operators); 5. Essential and priority construction projects, whether public or private, and smallscale construction projects such as those for housing or residential, in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH); 6. Manufacturing related to food and other essential goods such as but not limited to soap and detergents, diapers, personal hygiene products, toilet paper and wet wipes, and disinfectants; 7. Companies that manufacture, distribute and/or supply equipment or products necessary to perform construction or maintenance works, such as cement and steel, or spare parts; 8. Essential retail trade and service establishments such as public markets, supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, pharmacies or drug stores, hardware, office supplies, bicycle shops, laundry shops, and water-refilling stations; 9. Food preparation establishments such as kiosks, commissaries, restaurants, and eateries, subject to the strict observance of the following capacities: a. Take-out and delivery- full capacity; b. Outdoor dine-in services (al fresco) - may be increased to a maximum of (30%) seating capacity; c. Indoor dine-in services at an initial venue or seating capacity of (10%); 10. Public and private financial service providers involved in the distribution of government grants and amelioration subsidies; 11. Public transport providers and operators subject to the Department of Transportation (DOTr) guidelines; 12. Water supply and janitorial/sanitation services and facilities, including waste disposal services, as well as property management and building utility services; 13. Energy sector (oil, gas, 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 byproducts (gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas, jet oil, kerosene, lubricants), including gasoline stations, refineries and depots or any kind of fuel used to produce electricity; 14. 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; 15. 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 Funeral and embalming services; 16. Security personnel licensed by the PNP - Supervisory Office for Security and Investigation Agencies;
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17. Printing establishments authorized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue and other government agencies to print accountable forms and other security documents; 18. Establishments engaged in repair and maintenance of machinery and equipment, for households and essential permitted establishments; 19. Establishments engaged in repair and maintenance of motorized and nonmotorized vehicles, including the sale of spare parts; 20. Leasing of real and personal properties; 21. Employment activities that involve the recruitment and placement for permitted sectors; 22. Teachers, professors and other staff for purposes of conducting online/offline, and flexible classes, completion of grades, and processing of student credentials, requirements and documents; 23. Lawyers who will provide legal representation necessary to protect rights of persons as well as legal services for permitted establishments, and law firms; 24. All other establishments, to the extent necessary for the buying and selling of consumer goods or services via the internet; 25. Payroll managers, and such other employees required for the processing of payroll, and accounting firms. Private corporations are encouraged to process payrolls online. B. Maximum of fifty percent (50%) on-site capacity Media establishments and their total permanent staff complement, inclusive of reporters and other field employees. C. Maximum of thirty percent (30%) on-site capacity: All other private establishments and offices operating within in Iloilo City shall be allowed to operate at a 30% venue or seating capacity, with consideration to the following qualifications on certain entities hereunder: 1. Business process outsourcing establishments (BPOs). It is however strongly advised that the same may adopt alternative work arrangements such as workfrom-home set up to allow as little on-site workforce as practicable; 2. Dental, rehabilitation, optometry and other medical clinics for the treatment of illness or injuries. Provided that there is strict observance of infection prevention and control protocols. Provided, further, 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; 3. Veterinary clinics; 4. 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. Banks operating within Iloilo City are strongly encouraged to adopt shorter working hours and alternative working arrangements, without prejudice to the guidelines set by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas; 5. Beauty salons, beauty parlors, barbershops, and nail spas, at an initial venue or seating capacity of (30%), provided that they shall only provide services that can accommodate the wearing of face masks at all times by the patrons/clients and service providers. (DTI Memorandum Circular No. 21-15, s. 2021: Additional
Business Establishments, Persons or Activities Allowed to Operate in Areas Placed Under MECQ)
SECTION 14. PROHIBITED ESTABLISHMENTS AND ACTIVITIES. The following establishments, persons, or activities shall not be permitted to operate, work, or be undertaken during MECQ: 7
1. Entertainment venues with live performers such as karaoke bars, bars, clubs, concert halls, theaters, and cinemas; 2. Recreational venues such as internet cafes (except in so far as catering to students for their online classes and requirements ), billiard halls, amusement arcades, bowling alleys, and similar venues; 3. Amusement parks or theme parks, fairs/peryas, kid amusement industries such as playgrounds, playroom, and kiddie rides; 4. Outdoor sports courts or venues for direct and indirect contact sports, scrimmages, games, or activities; 5. Indoor sports courts or venues, fitness studios, gyms, spas or other indoor leisure centers or facilities, and swimming pools; 6. Casinos, horse racing, cockfighting and operation of cockpits (including the
conduct of e-sabong by licensed and regulated by the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), per IATF Omnibus Guidelines with Amendments as of 20 May 2021), lottery and betting shops,
and other gaming establishments except for the draws conducted by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office; 7. Indoor visitor or tourist attractions, libraries, archives, museums, galleries, and cultural shows and exhibits; 8. Outdoor tourist attractions; 9. Venues for face-to-face meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions; 10. Other personal care services which include make-up salons, medical aesthetic clinics, cosmetic or derma clinics, reflexology, aesthetics, wellness and holistic centers, and other similar establishments; acupuncture and electrocautery establishments, and massage therapy including sports therapy establishments. It also includes establishments providing tanning services, body piercings, tattooing and similar services. Home service for these activities are likewise not permitted. ( DTI Memorandum Circular No.
21-15, s. 2021, Category III and IATF Omnibus Guidelines on Community Quarantine with Amendments as of May 20, 2021)
Section 15. WORK IN THE ILOILO CITY GOVERNMENT. For the duration of the MECQ, the following guidelines shall be observed by all personnel of the Iloilo City Government: a. All Department Heads/Heads of Offices of the Iloilo City Government are directed to adopt work arrangements that entail only thirty-percent (30%) on-site capacity, insofar as practicable. However, the Iloilo City Bids and Awards Committee, Iloilo City Business Permit and Licensing Office, Iloilo City Accountant’s Office, Iloilo City Treasurer’s Office, Iloilo City Budget Office, City Engineer’s Office and the Iloilo City General Services Office may be allowed to operate at a maximum of (75%) on-site capacity, and the Iloilo City Health Office, (CHO) Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (CDRRMO) and the Iloilo City Public Safety and Transportation Management (PSTMO) at full operational capacity, to ensure that public service delivery is not prejudiced during the implementation of the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine in Iloilo City. b. Across all settings, work-from-home and other flexible work arrangements entailing lower numbers of employees working on site are still highly encouraged. c. Those persons (whether plantilla or job-hires or contracts of service) belonging to the vulnerable sectors mentioned herein shall be advised to work from home or any other alternative work arrangement, subject to measurable output requirements submitted, pursuant to relevant issuances of the Civil Service Commission; d. Random weekly RT-PCR testing for all city hall personnel (whether plantilla or jobhires or contracts of service);
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e. The work from home or any other alternative work arrangement under this rule shall not apply to department heads, assistant department heads, and executive assistants. f. Except for the payment of taxes, submission of forms or those processes where personal appearance of the applicant or respondent is indispensable, all face-to-face transactions with all offices of the Iloilo City Government shall be limited. Offices are advised to use alternative modes of submission of documents and alternative forms of payment to government accounts; g. Persons without face shields and face masks shall not be allowed to enter the premises of the Iloilo City Hall. SECTION 16. WORK IN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND OFFICES IN ILOILO CITY. Agencies and instrumentalities of the government shall remain fully operational with a skeleton workforce on-site, enjoining to operate at thirty-percent (30%) capacity, as determined by the head of agency, and the remainder under alternative work arrangements or work-from-home, as may be approved by the head of agency, unless a greater on-site capacity is required in agencies providing health and emergency frontline services, laboratory and testing services, border control, or other critical services, in accordance with the relevant rules and regulations issued by the Civil Service Commission (CSC). SECTION 17. NECESSARY IMPOSITION OF LOCALIZED CONTAINMENT IN BARANGAYS OR AFFECTED ESTABLISHMENTS. Pursuant to IATF Resolution No. 118-A, s. 2021, Highly Urbanized Cities are allowed to impose a barangay-wide quarantine. Further, the imposition of selective localized containment intervention measures shall be done pursuant to the Inter Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) National Task Force COVID 19 (NTF) issued Memorandum Circular (MC) No. 2, s. 2020 providing for the “Operational Guidelines on the Application of the Zoning Containment Strategy in the Localization of the National Action Plan Against COVID-19 Response”. In such an event, the Iloilo City Government shall enforce intervention measures, such as but not limited to: a. A Stay-at-Home Order, or temporary cessation of operations in cases where the contaminated area is a workplace; b.
Impose a Mandatory Random COVID-19 Testing and contact tracing;
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Limit the access of persons to the contained barangay, or any portion thereof; and
d. Impose other necessary directives to control and contain the spread and transmission of COVID-19. SECTION 18. ASSESSMENT AND REVIEW. The Iloilo City COVID-19 Team, and City Health Office shall conduct a review and appraisal of the situation in Iloilo City regarding the possibility of local transmission, through COVID-19 testing, and collating the results to evaluate its extent and scope, the measures taken to arrest the possible spread of the contagion, and other important factors affecting the health of the residents of Iloilo City. The report shall be submitted to the Local Chief Executive and the Sangguniang Panlungsod as frequently as may be necessary. SECTION 19. OPERATION OF THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. The road, maritime (except those with the approved travel moratorium from and to specified destinations), and aviation sectors of public transportation shall be allowed to operate at such capacity and protocols in accordance with guidelines issued by the DOTr. The use of active transportation such as biking is highly encouraged. The movement of cargo/delivery vehicles, as well as vehicles used by public utility companies, shall be unhampered. Shuttle services of permitted establishments shall not be subject to an ID system but shall maintain compliance with minimum public health standards with the drivers wearing face masks all the time and with transparent anti-COVID-19 dividers from the passengers. Passengers shall maintain one (1) seat apart from each other and must sanitize prior 9
to taking in. Companies with shuttle services must maintain a log book to easily track the passengers/employees. SECTION 20. VACCINATION ROLL-OUT. Vaccination roll-out at the identified vaccination sites shall remain unhampered. No walk-ins for pre-registration at the sites will be imposed. Only the confirmed residents on the priority list and with vaccination tickets shall be accommodated. Provided that, strict observance of minimum public health standards must be maintained at the vaccination sites. SECTION 21. ENFORCEMENT. This Executive Order shall be enforced by the Iloilo City Public Safety and Traffic Management Office, City Health Office, Iloilo City Compliance Officers, Philippine National Police, Barangay Officials, including Sangguniang Kabataan Officials above 21 years of age, Philippine Army, Philippine Coast Guard, volunteer force multipliers. Section 22. PENALTIES IMPOSABLE. For all persons, who knowingly break any of the provisions stated herein as well as established health and safety protocols issued by the Department of Health, IATF, and other agencies; and in the process endanger the lives of the residents of Iloilo city, will face the appropriate administrative and / or criminal charges. SECTION 23. AMENDMENTS. This executive order may be amended from time to time, in recognition of the fast-developing status of the COVID-19 situation, as the need arises, or if there is a change in the situation as reported by the City Health Office, Department of Health or the World Health Organization. SECTION 24. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. If any provision of this Executive Order is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall remain valid and subsisting. SECTION 25. INCORPORATION CLAUSE. All other executive orders, rules and regulations and other issuances or parts thereof which are not inconsistent with this Order continue to remain in force and effect. SECTION 26. REPEALING CLAUSE. All orders or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Executive Order are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. SECTION 27. EFFECTIVITY. This Executive Order shall take effect immediately. DONE this 15th day of June 2021, in the City of lloilo, Philippines.
SO ORDERED.
HON. JERRY P. TREÑAS
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