When Congressman Salceda was interviewed by online broker COL Financial, he said that in an optimistic scenario where lockdown is very effective, flattens the curve and provides good stimulus, GDP would reach 3.3% in 2020 and 5.1% in 2021. [155] In a poor or reasonable case where the lockdown is somewhat successful, GDP would rise to 2.9% in 2020 and 4.0% in 2021. [155] Finally, in a pessimistic case where the economy is essentially in recession, the health emergency persists and the lockdown is prolonged, there would be a GDP of -0.3% in 2020 and a GDP of 2.9% in 2021. [155] The lists of sectors and sectors by category in the Omnibus Guidelines are provided for illustrative purposes only. The ITD has the authority to reclassify industries and update guidelines to implement a gradual increase in operating capacity and sites, including operating hours, without reducing current capacity and previously authorized hours. The most recent DTI Memorandum Circular requiring the recategorization of certain activities from Category IV to Category III is DTI Memorandum Circular No. 21-08 of 28 February 2021. After more than a month of implementing the Luzon ECQ, philippine National Police (PNP) chief Archie Gamboa said on April 21 that they would immediately make arrests without warning for those who violate the guidelines of the Luzon ECQ. [197] This came amid 136,517 reported cases of quarantine violators after 35 days of implementation of the Luzon QCE.
[198] Human rights lawyers from the National Union of Peoples` Lawyers (NUPL) responded to Gamboa`s statement; NUPL Secretary General Ephraim B. Cortez said there is no specific law that makes someone a criminal for breaking ECQ rules. [199] Another group of lawyers from the Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) asked the PNP to reconsider its position on arrests, and flag also stated that arrest without warning “would mean disregarding the carefully calibrated general rule and exceptions in Rule 113 (the Code of Criminal Procedure that gives a person the power to inform an arrested person) and create a new rule for arrests. which is not authorized by the Constitution. [200] The exact differences between the ECQ and MECQ rules will be discussed at Malacañang`s regular press briefing with the media on Monday, April 12, the president`s spokesman, Harry Roque, said. The Executive Secretary issued the Memorandum of March 27, 2021, in which he endorses the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Working Group to place the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal, as well as the highly urbanized cities of the National Capital Region and the Municipality of Pateros, in enhanced community quarantine by April 4, 2021 to slow the increase in COVID-19 cases. At the press conference on 3 April 2021, palace spokesman Harry Roque announced the extension of the ECQ in these areas until 11 April 2021. 107-A of March 29, 2021, here are the quarantine classifications for April 2021. IATF Resolution No. 101 of 26 February 2021 provides for a uniform travel protocol for land, air and sea.