DPWH chief Villar tests positive for COVID-19

DPWH Secretary Mark Villar announced on Wednesday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Villar did not attend the inauguration of the final section of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway and will skip the inspection of Clark International Airport's new terminal building.

He was named as the country's 'isolation czar' during a Palace press briefing on Monday, where he reported that there are 55,416 available beds in quarantine facilities for COVID-19 patients.

Villar is the latest Duterte Cabinet member to test positive; Interior Secretary Eduardo Año and Education Secretary Leonor Briones were previously infected.