The Abia State combined team of the COVID-19 Task force and youths of Ogbudiukwu, Umuopara in Umuahia South local government area of the State, Wednesday, intercepted a Siena vehicle conveying bags of weeds suspected to be cannabis at Ogbudiukwu community.
The Akwa Ibom State Government has announced its decision to continue enforcing the Quarantine and Restriction of Movement order 2020 indefinitely. Lockdown in the state started on May, 30, 2020 and was expected to end on Thursday, April, 30 making it one month.
IN line with the recommendation of World Health Organisation to avert the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, Akwa Ibom State government has embarked on decontamination of some major cities and strategic locations across the state.
Abia Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has imposed a six -hour curfew on the 17 local government areas of the state. Ikpeazu made the pronouncement during a media chat at the Abia State Governor’s Lodge in Aba, the commercial nerve of the state on Sunday.
The Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma, has signed into law, a bill to introduce and enforce measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) disease and other dangerous infectious diseases and related matters.
Imo State Task Force on COVID-19 Prevention and Control Committee under the chairmanship of Professor Maurice Iwu, on Thursday said it was raising the sample test of suspected cases from three to 10 per week.
UYO – Akwa Ibom state government has announced the extension of ongoing total lockdown put in place to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the state w till Monday April, 27, 2020.
The Cross River State Government has said that its policy on face mask is also applicable to all the hospitals in the state. Cross River is one of the first states in Nigeria that made it mandatory for residents to wear face mask whenever in the public because of the novel coronavirus.
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has scored Akwa Ibom State Government 99 per cent on contact-tracing and other critical elements in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who made the announcement in Akure, the state capital, said he had constituted a committee to supervise the production of the face masks for residents of Ondo.