ADAD
Updating your news feed...
NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
Loading banners
Loading banners...
Abia State SSG, Barr Chris Ezem
By OKECHUKWU KESHI UKEGBU
The Abia State Government has threatened to seal-off both private and public health facilities who are in the practice of turning patients back in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.
A release by the Secretary to the State Government, Barr Chris Ezem, who doubles as the chairman of the COVID-19 Committee, said that any suspected case of COVID-19 should not be rejected but referred for test.
The release further expressed worry over the flouting of the COVID-19 directives by churches, and strictly warned religious leaders not to allow their places of worship become veritable grounds of spreading the virus, adding that worship centres that continued on the contrary would be clamped down.
“Abia government also directs local government chairmen to review the enforcement processes in their various areas to ensure a more efficient output,” the statement said.
It also warned that directives on burials, markets, religious and other activities should be intensified, while warning that burial permits should not be commercialised.
