Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Wednesday, addressed residents of the state on confirmed positive cases of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), disclosing that all the eleven cases are people who entered the state illegally despite the Presidential order on restriction of inter-state movement and the state government\u2019s closure of all boundaries and inter-state transportation. Gov.
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, on Wednesday, addressed residents of the state on confirmed positive cases of Coronavirus Disease , disclosing that all the eleven cases are people who entered the state illegally despite the Presidential order on restriction of inter-state movement and the state government’s closure of all boundaries and inter-state transportation.
He therefore asked all those charged with the responsibility of protecting all land boundaries in the state “to put more efforts to ensure that our boundaries are properly secured to curb this unfortunate importation of the COVID-19 into the state”. According to the governor, “on the 28th of March 2020, Enugu State had its index positive case, a couple from Isi-Uzo Local Government Area who then just returned from the United Kingdom and Dubai. Both have been successfully treated and discharged.
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