Oil Workers Account for 60% of Cases in Rivers, Says Wike
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Nyesom Wike, has blamed the rising COVID-19 cases in the state on unscreened oil workers.
Speaking when the management team of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited paid him a courtesy visit at Government House, Port Harcourt, the governor said the development accounted for why he insisted that oil workers coming into the state must be tested to know their coronavirus status. He recalled that recently the Nigeria Air Force Base, Port Harcourt quarantined 14 oil workers out which three of them tested positive for the virus.“Oil is the main stay of the economy of Nigeria and without it we that are in this part of the country will find it difficult to function.
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