“The second challenge that we have is the issue of stigmatisation, and we have been trying to carry out an advocacy to the people to realise that this is a disease that can actually affect anybody, as there is nobody that is exempted from it.”
aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19. He said that all ongoing infrastructural projects that had reached advanced stages of completion and others would have to wait till 2021 fiscal year.
He said: “Our challenge in managing the COVID-19 in Delta State is two-pronged; one is the problem of dealing with the issues of the economy of the people, particularly the informal sector, because in the process of trying to stop the chain of transmission, we have had to undertake a lockdown. He further said that the state had started tackling the economic challenge by easing the lockdown in Delta to make it much easier to manage when they resume second tranche of palliatives distribution.
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