Hey, Poker playas!
The Philippines is now under a new classification system for its lockdown.
for those who might get confused, base on the restrictions that are imposed it is more or less like the MECQ of the old system.
not much really has changed except there is a new classification system. but we would break down alert level 4 for today.
Alert level 4
Here is a quick guide.
Not Allowed
- Travel for minors, senior citizens aged 65 and above, persons with comorbidities, and pregnant women.
- libraries, archives, museums, galleries, cultural shows, and exhibits;
- indoor venues for meeting, incentives, conferences, and events;
- cinemas;
- karaoke bars, bars, clubs, concert halls, and theaters;
- outdoor and indoor amusement parks;
- internet cafes, billiard halls, amusement arcades, bowling alleys, and similar venues;
- indoor limited face-to-face classes, except those previously approved by the national government;
- casinos, horse racing, cockfighting;
- social events such as concerts and parties, wedding receptions, engagement parties, wedding anniversaries, debut and birthday parties, family reunions, and bridal or baby showers, parades, processions, motorcades, and gatherings at residences with any person outside one’s immediate household;
- fitness studios, gyms, spas, or other indoor leisure centers or facilities, and swimming pools;
- all contact sports, except those conducted under a bubble-type setup approved by the LGU;
- medical aesthetic clinics, cosmetic or derma clinics, make-up salons, reflexology, aesthetics, wellness, and holistic centers;
- acupuncture and electrocautery establishments;
- massage therapy including sports therapy establishments (home service not permitted);
- staycations.
This is the list so far of what is not allowed.
Allowed
- interzonal and intrazonal travel for people not required to stay at home;
- individual outdoor exercises for all ages regardless of vaccination status, but shall be limited within area of residence;
- al-fresco dine-in services at 30% capacity;
- indoor dine-in services at 10% capacity, but only for the fully vaccinated;
- outdoor personal care services (barber shops, hair spas, nail spas, and beauty salons) at 30% capacity;
- indoor personal care services at 10% capacity, but only for the fully vaccinated;
- gatherings for necrological services, wakes, inurnment, or funerals for those who died from causes other than COVID-19.
Granular lockdown
The new lockdown scheme will see local government units (LGUs) maximize the implementation of small-scale or granular lockdowns.
Under the new guidelines, granular lockdowns will be enforced in a certain area for at least 14 days.
Only health workers and uniformed personnel “shall be allowed to move within, into, and out of the area under granular lockdown,” the guidelines read.
Granular lockdowns will be implemented in areas that have high active cases for 14 days. It will be the strictest form that almost nobody is allowed to go out when it is declared.
It can be a street, a city, or even a floor of a condominium. Although nobody will be allowed to go out. People under this lockdown will be given food stubs.
Curfew
Metro Manila has been under an eight-hour curfew – from 8 pm to 4 am – since the region was placed on hard lockdown on August 6.
The National Capital Region (NCR) will see shortened curfew hours when the metropolis shifts to the pilot implementation of a new lockdown scheme on Thursday, September 16.
New curfew hours will be 10 pm to 4 am
Stay safe poker playas!
