Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) Guidelines

Establishments not allowed to open under MECQ based on DTI’s guidelines are:

indoor non-contact sports courts or venues

fitness studios, gyms, spas, or other leisure centers or facilities;

indoor sports, courts or venues for contact sports, scrimmages, games, or activities;

indoor visitor or tourist attractions, libraries, archives, museums, galleries, and cultural shows and exhibits;

outdoor tourist attractions;

venues for meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions.

Also prohibited to operate under MECQ are:

other personal care services, which include make-up salons, medical aesthetic clinics, cosmetic or derma clinics, reflexology, aesthetics, wellness, and holistic centers, and similar establishments;

acupuncture and electrocautery establishments, and massage therapy including sports therapy establishment;

and establishments providing tanning services, body piercings, tattooing, and similar services

cinemas, amusement parks or theme parks, casinos, horse racing, lottery and betting shops, and other gaming establishments;

recreational venues such as internet cafes, billiard halls, amusement arcades, bowling alleys, and similar venues.

Take note however that DTI Region 11, on its website, clarified on June 5 that only beauty salons, beauty parlors, barbershops, and nail spas are allowed to operate at 30 percent of their maximum capacity provided that wearing of face mask and face shield is observed at all times.