Ortom orders closure of entry points to Benue State

“Primary Healthcare Centres and hospitals in all the councils will serve as quarantine and limited treatment centres in the event of outbreak of the virus.”

Ortom, who gave the order yesterday while briefing newsmen at Government House, Makurdi, also said that the partial lockdown of the state should continue.

According to the governor, the restriction of movement from 7p.m. to 6a.m. daily, except those on essential services, also continues. He insisted that all markets in the state remain closed, reiterating that only medicine and commodity stores shall be open. When The Guardian interviewed some of the youths, they admitted that they were brought into the state from some northern states to look for job.

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