Despite a daily increase in cases of coronavirus in Nigeria, some state governments have been lifting the ban on public gathering, which they had declared at the outset of the pandemic to reduce risk of transmission by physical contacts among the people.
, it recorded 33 new ones, but none on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, on Thursday, it added 22 patients to its tallychairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria , Kaduna State chapter, John Hayab, earlier in the week appealed to Governor Nasir El-Rufai toMr Hayab urged the governor to relax the lockdown on Fridays and Sundays as doing so on “those days would be used by adherents of both religions to achieve positive results.
But a Kano-based medical practitioner, Maryam Shuaibu, warned that allowing religious gatherings at this period of uncertainty may lead to an increase in the number of COVID-18 cases.The Kaduna government has, for now, not relaxed the ban on large gatherings in the state. Meanwhile, the Jama’atu Nasril Islam has urged Nigerian Muslims to say their ‘Eid’ prayers at home with their families or alone as the case may be, thereby temporarily suspending congregational ‘Eid-el-Fitri’ prayer, which Muslims use to mark the end of the Ramadan fast.
The eid is usually observed on open grounds and attended by thousands of Muslims in each community. The JNI said congregational prayer increases the risk of contacting people who might have the virus, especially asymptomatic carriers.
“Coronavirus pandemic has come to change many things about how we live our lives,” a senior pastor of the Kingsway International Christian Centre, Mathew Ashimolowo, said in his online sermon on Thursday.
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