CHECKPOINT INSPECTION PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar talks to a jeepney driver as he inspects one of the checkpoints on the first day of the enhanced community quarantine or ECQ in Metro Manila on Aug. 6, 2021. The strict lockdown was reimposed to stem a surge in Covid-19 infections resulting from its highly transmissible Delta variant. Eleazar visited checkpoints at the boundary of Caloocan and Manila on Rizal Avenue, the NLEx exit and Navotas C3. PHOTO BY JOHN ORVEN VERDOTE