THE government partnered with motorcycle taxi firm Angkas to provide free rides to medical frontliners in select hospitals in Metro Manila, one of several areas that had been placed anew under a two-week modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) due to the rising number of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases.
BARRIER CARRIER Interior Secretary Eduardo Año (center) tries on the transparent motorcycle barrier donated by Angkas as LtGen. Guillermo Eleazar (left), commander of Joint Task Force Covid Shield and Angkas Chief Transport Advocate George Royeca assist him during the ride-hailing company’s distribution of such barriers and launch of its free-ride program for medical frontliners at Camp Crame in Quezon City on Aug. 7, 2020. PHOTO BY JOHN ORVEN VERDOTE