The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, said he has set up a team of medical experts to make findings on how people in different communities in his state could go about their normal lives, in spite of the presence of coronavirus (COVID-19).
“Assuming God does not allow this virus go till the end of this year, we must find a way to live with it because we cannot completely shut out human existence because of virus,” Mr Emmanuel said on Sunday in a live phone-in interview.
Akwa Ibom has 48 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus as of June 15, one of the lowest among the states in Nigeria. Mr Emmanuel said he has told the team to study how the “black” genes react to the COVID-19 virus, compare their findings with the results of similar researches in other parts of the world with the hope that human spirit would ultimately triumph against the pandemic.
“And I want to believe we should be able to catch up very soon. And we are also not alone in this matter, even if we open up our schools our students would still need to write WASCE that they couldn’t write before this thing came up,” he said.
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