Transportation

Health workers
Employees of essential services establishments such as:
- Food services (farmers, cashiers, &etc.)
- Pharmaceutical services (pharmacists, &etc.)
- Delivery services (drivers, pilots, captains, &etc.)
- Sanitation services (garbage collectors, funeral services, &etc.)
- Utility services (electricity, water, telecommunications, and gas providers)
- Banks
Law enforcers and certain public officials
Volunteers and Humanitarians
Media practitioners with their own vehicles with a media pass from the Presidential Communications Operations Office to enter quarantined areas.
Designated one-person-per-household buyer for necessities:
- people leaving home quarantine for this purpose will not be allowed to pass through border checkpoints;
- some LGUs issue and require “quarantine passes” from these individuals

Border Check Points

When crossing strategic quarantine border checkpoints, these exemptions must present an IATF Identification Card of Employment (secured by their employer) or the following credentials:

Certificate of Employment / Delivery Receipt / E-Prescription
Proof of residency

Public Transportation

Mass public transportation is suspended. Government and accredited-volunteer groups will provide transportation or accommodation for health workers and the vulnerable.

Airport taxes are suspended to avoid wasteful “ghost-flights”.

Private Vehicles

Private vehicles are subject to random checking.

Air and Sea Travel

Only land, air, and sea travel of uniformed personnel for official business, especially those transporting medical supplies, laboratory specimens, related to COVID-19, and other humanitarian assistance shall be allowed.

Only Filipino citizens, with their spouse and children (whether Filipino or foreign) and holders of Permanent Visas or government-issued 9(e) Diplomatic Visas may enter the country subject to quarantine procedures..

People going outside the Philippines through Luzon are only limited to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) with transportation services provided by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) and foreigners with the following security checks:

Traveler must only be escorted by one other person
Flight must be scheduled within 24 hours from their accommodations
Present travel itenerary

Foreign Nationals

Entry of foreign national are restricted effective 22 March 2020.

Visa-free privileges of foreign nationals are temporarily suspended. All issuance for entry visas for visa-required foreign nationals are suspended while all previously issued visas are cancelled, except those issued to:

foreign government and international organization officials accredited to the Philippines and
foreign spouse and children of foreign nationals.

*Please note that this is subject to change and DFA will be updating the advisories accordingly.

Missing Laws

[Must include provisional laws for public transportation of those without private cars in need of food and medicine in distant areas]

[Citizen Response: Offer one-person to do the groceries for the street/village and provide sanitation measures for that person.]

Updated 24 March 2020

Deliveries

Source: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/en/insight/publications/2020/03/enhanced-community-quarantine-ph-covid19

Cargos

Movement of all cargoes within, to, and from the entire Luzon shall be unhampered.

If subjected to random inspection, the movement of cargoes shall not be delayed upon presentation of the cargo manifest or delivery receipt indicating the destination, nature, and quantity of the loaded goods/cargo.

Ports

Ports shall continue to be open to cargo ships provided there will be no embarkation /disembarkation of crew.

The following rules apply to trucks carrying cargo from a Luzon port:

Trucks carrying cargo from one port to another in Luzon which does not require traversing a body of water shall be allowed continuous access to and from said port.
Trucks containing cargo which require traversing a body of water shall be required to either:
- unload the cargo in the next port of call and transfer the same to another truck or vehicle; or
- engage a different driver and a maximum of two helpers for the continued voyage of the trucks and cargo to its final destination.

Updated 24 March 2020