Davidson Iriekpen
Governor Nyesom Wike said he will re-impose lockdown from January 2021, following the rising number of new cases of COVID-19 in Rivers State.
Wike gave the hint during a thanksgiving ceremony held for Mrs. Priscilla Nwanediye Mark on her 90th birthday at the St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government yesterday.
The governor in a statement by his media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, described as worrisome the refusal of most churches and markets in the state to enforce the compulsory wearing of facemask in adherence to COVID-19 protocol.
The governor said the state government had initially relaxed the restriction on the number of persons who worship in churches, but with the second wave of COVID-19, he will by this week announce new stringent measures to check the spread of COVID-19 cases in the state.
Governor Wike, lamented as worrisome the refusal of most churches and markets in the State to enforce compulsory wearing of face mask in adherence to COVID-19 protocol.
He said the State government had initially relaxed the restriction on the number of persons who worship in churches, but with second wave of COVID-19, he will by this week announce new stringent measures to check the spread of COVID-19 cases in the State,
“When you go to some churches, they don’t wear mask. Go to market, they don’t wear mask. They believe COVID is not real. It’s not real because it has not happened to you; nobody had died whom you know. When somebody has died and the person was close to you, you will know that COVID is real.
Wike to re-impose COVID-19 lockdown in Rivers, January
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By Davies Iheamnachor
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has hinted that he would re-impose COVID-19 lockdown in the state beginning from January following the recent upsurge in the number of coronavirus cases in the State.
Wike according to a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Kelvin Ebiri, gave a hint of the imminent second phase of lockdown amid rising cases of COVID-19 during the church thanksgiving service in celebration of the 90th birthday of Mrs Priscilla Nwanediye Mark, at the St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government on Sunday.
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L-R: Ibrahim Eddy Mark; Governor of Rivers State, His Excellency, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike; Mrs Priscilla Nwanediye Mark; Governor of Sokoto State, His Excellency, Aminu Tambuwal during the thanksgiving church service in celebration of the 90th birthday of Mrs. Mark, at the St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government on Sunday
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Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, has threatened to lock down Rivers State following the surge in cases of coronavirus in the state.
He gave hint during the thanksgiving church service in celebration of the 90th birthday of Mrs Priscilla Nwanediye Mark, at the St. Martin’s Anglican Church, Omagwa in Ikwerre Local Government on Sunday.
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