FG Engages Northern Traditional Rulers to Curb Spread of COVID-19
The Federal Government said it had started reaching out to traditional leaders from the northern part of the country to help sensitise the their people on the urgent need to comply with health advisories on COVID-19.
Ehanire said that federal government was encouraging and supporting states to increase the number of isolation centres nationwide, With regard to Kano, Ehanire said that progress had been made in collaborative efforts with the state epidemiologists to restore routine medical services to hospitals and further drive the ongoing investigations.
On the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria, the minister said that it had continued to rise not unexpectedly, in view of prevailing circumstances in certain states. The minister said that the continued rise in the number of cases is clearly an evidence that the country was now in community transmission phase.
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