Public Works Secretary and chief isolation czar Mark Villar has tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

“I regret to announce that today, July 15, I received my test result and it is positive for COVID-19,” Villar said in his Facebook post. 

Besides Villar, Senators Aquilino Pimentel 3rd., Sonny Angara, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Education Secretary Leonor Briones, Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Felimon Santos J., Interior Secretary Eduardo Ano and general manager of Philippine National Railways Jun Magno have earlier tested positive for the virus but have eventually recovered.