NCDC Warns against Relaxing COVID-19 Measures, Says Nigeria Not Yet Out of Danger Zone
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has warned that the country can ill afford to relax now on measures being pursued to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.
While speaking at briefing, Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire said that federal government was worried that a good number of health workers may be knocked down by COVID-19 thus incapacitating the health sector if they failed to take adequate measures to protect themselves. Ehanire explained that the high number of new cases was due to on-going community transmission and active case search.
Also the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Kayemo, assured the affected health workers of the ministry’s readiness to act as reconciliators between them and their employers if they bring up the matter. “I think it is important to emphasize as the minister had said the issue of scaling up occupational health and safety. Looking at the number of health workers that have been infected so far I think there is no gainsaying that health workers need to protect themselves first before offering service to others,” he said.
NLC’s intervention came on the heals of outcry by some pensioners who have waited in vain for PENCOM to release fund to Pension Fund Administrators to take care of the elderly Nigerians.
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