MANILA, Philippines—The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Monday (Nov. 23) sent a 25-man medical contingent to Davao City, following a spike in COVID-19 cases there.
Maj. Gen. Benedict Arevalo, AFP deputy chief of staff for civil-military operations, and Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. sent off the team in a ceremony at the Philippine Air Force’s Villamor Air Base in Pasay City. Galvez, a retired general, is chief implementer of the National Action Plan (NAP) against COVID-19.
Also in the ceremony was Melquiades Feliciano, deputy chief implementer of NAP in the Visayas.
The AFP said the medical contingent, which is composed of five teams of military doctors, nurses and med…
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