Camp Aguinaldo locked down

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Sunday ordered the lockdown of its general headquarters, Camp Aguinaldo, amid the sharp increase of Covid-19 cases.

“ this preemptive measure, AFP Chief General Cirilito Sobejana seeks to arrest the alarming and fast-growing number of Covid-19 infection,” AFP spokesman Maj. Gen. Edgard Arevalo said in a statement.

The lockdown was enforced at 8 a.m. on Sunday.

The Department of Health, on the same day, recorded 7,757 cases of Covid-19.