GUIDE: Closed Establishments During MECQ 2021

The lockdown in Metro Manila was dialed down one notch to MECQ on Aug. 21, meaning more establishments will be allowed to open, with some at limited capacity, until the end of the month.

However, based on new omnibus guidelines from the Inter-Agence Task Force on COVID-19, some businesses should remain shut as authorities move to cap a surge driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant.

These establishments will remain closed in MECQ areas until Aug. 31, according to IATF guidelines:

• Indoor dine-in services of food preparation establishments such as
  commissaries, restaurants, and eateries
• Entertainment venues with live performers such as karaoke bars, bars, clubs,
  concert halls, theaters, and cinemas
• Recreational venues such as internet cafes, billiard halls, amusement arcades,
  bowling alleys, and similar venues
• Amusement parks or theme parks, fairs/peryas, kid amusement industries such
  as playgrounds, playroom, and kiddie rides
• Outdoor sports courts or venues for contact sports, scrimmages, games, or
  activities
• Indoor sports courts or venues, fitness studios, gyms, spas or other indoor
  leisure centers or facilities, and swimming pools
• Casinos, horse racing, cockfighting and operation of cockpits, lottery and
  betting shops, and other gaming establishments except for the draws
  conducted by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office
• Indoor visitor or tourist attractions, libraries, archives, museums, galleries, and
  cultural shows and exhibits
• Outdoor tourist attractions
• Venues for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions
• Personal care services which include beauty salons, beauty parlors, medical
  aesthetic clinics, cosmetic or derma clinics, make-up salons, nail spas,
  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

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