Tag: APOR

PNP: Persons traveling for medical, other emergency reasons to be allowed to cross NCR Plus borders during ECQ in Metro Manila

(Eagle News) — Persons traveling for medical or other emergency reasons will be allowed to cross borders in the National Capital Region Plus for the duration of the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila, the Philippine National Police said. According to PNP Chief Guillermo Eleazar, these individuals are also classified as authorized persons outside residences. They include individuals with doctors’ appointments and individuals who need to return to their provinces because someone from their family died […]

Non-APORs taking APORs to work required to present docs to be allowed passage through checkpoints: PNP

(Eagle News) — Persons who don’t fall under the authorized persons outside residences category but who have been designated as an APOR’s fetcher still need to present specific documents to be allowed passage through checkpoints for the duration of the enhanced community quarantine in Metro Manila. According to Philippine National Police Chief Guillermo Eleazar, these documents are a certificate of employment of the APOR passenger indicating the name of the designated non-APOR fetcher, the make […]

DOTr: Free rides program for healthcare workers, other essential workers to continue in GCQ areas

(Eagle News) — The free rides program for healthcare workers and other essential workers will continue even in areas that are now under a general community quarantine. The Department of Transportation made the announcement in a statement released a day after Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced the community quarantines for parts of the country that will take effect today, May 14. The free rides program was first launched to ensure the mobility of authorized people […]

Back-riding in motorcycles only allowed for frontliners, other APORs

  (Eagle News) — Malacanang said it is allowing “back-riding” in motorcycles if passengers are frontliners or “Authorized Person Outside of Residence (APOR). This is the only exemption to the prohibition on back riding amid the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) protocols re-imposed in Metro Manila, Bulacana, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal. APORs as backriders will only be allowed if the ride is “work-related.” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque announced this on Tuesday, Aug. 4. “Isa pong […]