Imo State Governor Hope Uzodinma on Sunday ordered workers to Remain at home until further notice following the upsurge at Covid-19.
He also disclosed in the state broadcast that with 920 new confirmed cases recorded in December alone in the country, the state has listed six deaths.
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Describing the situation in the country as terrifying, he disclosed that recent PCR-Based tests carried out in the state with regard to the principles of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), revealed a frightful upsurge in the curve of the supported case. “As of last week, no less than 32 men were confirmed positive with Covid-19,” he explained.
“Sadly, while the grim realities of rising Covid -19 infections have been confronting us every day, an overall complacency and false sense of security amongst our people to Covid -19 security protocols remain the order of their day. The opportunity to do so is now. The imminent danger posed by the individual traffic spike occasioned from the season makes immediate and drastic steps in this direction equally cogent and urgent.”
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In this respect, he cautioned that there is an absolute need to avoid collecting audiences of at least a hundred individuals anywhere in the nation. Where such audiences must collect, those involved need to wear face masks.
There ought to be wash handstands easily available with alcohol-based sanitisers at such events.
To further fortify security measures, all government workers are to remain at home from Monday, December 21, until further notice, except for permanent secretaries and political appointees. This usually means that the state secretariat, which is a major crowd puller, will stay closed, from tomorrow to the public until further notice.
Moreover, wearing face masks in public is henceforth absolutely mandatory. Mobile courts are deployed all over the state to test any person caught without wearing face masks.
Equally, all Covid-19 safety protocols will undoubtedly be rigorously enforced. “These include the provision of wash hand racks and sanitizers in worship and markets places. Any person or persons captured not observing these security protocols will be retrieved in the Mobile courts.
“As we enforce the safety protocols and track the circumstance, we will regularly review developments to determine additional steps which may be critical.
” I won’t want this Christmas to be the final for any of us. Let’s consider these safety protocols observe them tenaciously. It is in the interest of all people to achieve that.”
