Our Reporters The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Wednesday lamented Nigerians’ non-compliance with guidelines on the gradual reopening of the economy.
The task force Chairman, Boss Mustapha, who stated this at the PTF press conference in Abuja, said disregard for the ban on interstate movements and other guidelines was an indication of the danger ahead.
The PTF a few days later issued guidelines on social distancing and the ban on any gathering of more than 20 people. He said, “The overall assessment of compliance with the measures and the outcome of modelling we have developed, point in the direction of danger ahead. We therefore need personal discipline, increased awareness and enforcement.”He stated, “I wish to repeat my call to the banks to also quickly address issues related to difficulty with using their online platforms, especially revalidating expired ATM cards, among others.
He stated, “We have similarly received reports about the emerging situation in isolation centres in Gombe circulating in a viral video clip. He said, “On the cure of COVID-19, the traditional medicines that have been given to us or rather that people said they had, we have referred to them to Traditional Medicine Complementary Department of the Federal Ministry of Health and to the Nigerian Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development to evaluate.
“Any kind of medicine can be toxic. The toxicity can be checked and you can also check the efficacy. And as you know, you have to try it on animals such as rats and mouse, before it is certified.” The health minister added that the Federal Government had taken note of several complaints about the turnaround time to get the results of the COVID-19 tests.
On efforts to increase the country’s testing capacity, Ihekweazu said, “This week, we have a team looking at Port Harcourt, Owerri and Anambra, as well as another team in Gombe and Yola. Very soon, we will have five more labs.” He was responding to inquiries from The PUNCH about what was being done about reported cases of people moving from the northern to the southern part of the country and vice versa, in spite of the inter-state lockdown.
The National Publicity Secretary of the ACF, Emmanuel Yawe, who spoke to one of our correspondents on the telephone in Kaduna, however faulted the implementation of the decision by the governors. “So, the decision of the governors to take them to their states of origin to find their families, we totally agree with it. This is because if somebody has given birth to a child, he should be in the position to look after that child and not to throw the child onto the streets.
But the northern governors said there was no going back on their decision to return the Almajirai to their home states of origin.
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