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Following the new variant of COVID-19, the Ondo State Inter-ministerial Committee on Coronavirus (COVID-19) has called on residents of the state to strictly comply with the precautionary measures against the spread of COVID-19.
The Chairman, Inter-ministerial Committee on COVID-19 in the State and Vice-Chancellor, University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Prof Adesegun Fatusi, made this call after the Committee’s technical review meeting in Akure.
Prof Fatusi noted that the state in recent times has not witnessed any significant increase in the number of COVID-19 cases recorded nor experienced the new variants, but said “we must continue to bear in mind that the threat of a new wave of COVID-19 and of more infectious variants is real.
COVID-19 violators face imprisonment as Buhari signs regulations
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The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Coronavirus Disease Health Protection 2021 which made the use of face masks in public places mandatory among other measures to curtail spread of COVID-19.
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the President signed the document on Tuesday.
Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, said the President signed the document in exercise of the powers conferred on him by Section 4 of the Quarantine Act, Cap. Q2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2010.
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COVID-19: Nigerian pastor holds New Year crossover service, dares govt to arrest him
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Despite the directive by the Ondo State government banning the annual “cross over vigil”, senior pastor of Awaiting The Second Coming Of Christ Ministry, Adewale Giwa still went ahead to hold the programme.
At the cross over service held in his church auditorium in Akure, Giwa said only a fake Christian is afraid of death.
The state government through the Ondo State Inter-ministerial Committee on COVID-19 had threatened to jail any church leader who flouts its ban on crossover services across the state due to COVID-19 pandemic.