Around 65 persons were apprehended during the first few hours of the 48-hour “hard lockdown” being implemented in Sampaloc, Manila amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Information from the Manila Police District Station 4 said there were 65 persons who were apprehended for quarantine violations since Thursday night up to 12 noon of Friday when the hard lockdown was implemented in the district.
The apprehended individuals were brought to the district’s covered courts where they spent the night.
Sampaloc District is composed of 192 barangays with more or less 300,000 residents.
The hard lockdown started on 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, and will last until 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 25.
For the measure, 31 control points were set up in the district manned by hundreds of policemen and soldiers.