Gov Obiano expresses fear as COVID-19 cases rise in Anambra

Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano has expressed fear over the hike in COVID-19 cases within the state.

The Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr Don Adinuba in a press assertion  quoted Obiano as being concerned over the rise in cases of the an infection and the seeming nonchalance of residents to using protecting masks and observance of the prescribed protocol.

“The second wave of the Coronavirus in Nigeria has resulted in a substantial spike in infections in Anambra State within the final two weeks. Gov. Willie Obiano has made a passionate enchantment to the folks to protect themselves from the pandemic.”

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The assertion stated the “Reviews from throughout Anambra State exhibits an enormous improve within the incidence, which if not arrested now will produce a catastrophic consequence within the close to future.

“There are eighty confirmed COVID-19 instances within the state because the second wave started two weeks in the past, which means a median of forty instances per week. In distinction, the state used to file 9 instances per week on common within the first wave.”

The state government feared an enormous improve throughout the Christmas and New Yr festivities due to thousands and thousands of people that got here into Anambra State from completely different components of the nation and past.

It stated that it started early sufficient to challenge advisories on methods to include the second wave of the pandemic however was sad that guidelines had been uncared for.

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“It’s disheartening that there are folks in Anambra State who doubt the COVID-19 is ravaging the nation, regardless of the dying of a number of extremely positioned individuals from the illness.

Mr Adinuba mentioned the governor was embarrassed a couple of latest incident wherein two individuals who not too long ago examined optimistic within the state refused to isolate, reasonably they have been seen attending public features, the place they could have distributed the illness.

He mentioned, “There are two individuals who a number of days in the past got here for testing and had been confirmed to be constructive. As an alternative of isolating themselves, they rejoined a marriage get together and should have contaminated numerous individuals,” he mentioned.

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