Community Healthcare in the Time of COVID-19 The Story of the Bantay Kalusugan Pampamayanan (Community Health Watch) of San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan Nathaniel P. Candelaria and Bantay Kalusugan Pampamayanan On March 17, 2020, the island of Luzon was placed under an enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to manage the spread of COVID-19 (Office of the President 2020). Medical advisers of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID or simply IATF) initially announced that the ECQ contributed to the slowing of the spread of the virus causing the disease (ABS-CBN News 2020). However, they also pointed out that the lockdown was not enough to contain the pandemic. It was suggested that the Philippine government should increase its capacity in terms of mass testing, isolation, and contact tracing to further curb the spread of the disease (Magsambol 2020). At the same time, the lockdown also negatively affected the Philippine economy, which is now officially under a recession. The Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) shrunk by 16.5% during the second quarter of 2020 (Venzon 2020). However, the differentiated impact of the ECQ showed that the urban poor sector was badly hit despite the implementation of amelioration programs to assist them during the lockdown (de Vera 2020). In this report, we look at Bantay Kalusugang Pampamayanan (BKP; Community Health Watch) of San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan, one of the partners of the Program on Alternative Development (AltDev) of the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP CIDS), as it dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Particularly, this report will stress the impact of the pandemic among the members of the BKP. The discussion will also present the activities that 73