Treatment centres to test drug
length of time spent with them because the likelihood of presence of a positive person increases with the number and infection with time of exposure.
“A vulnerable person is not among those who should risk staying at home because complications can arise easily and suddenly or at an odd hour of the day or night when there’ll be no immediate help available. Any person who tested positive and opted to stay home or elsewhere should move to a treatment centre at the first sign of fever or shortness of breath. A delay can be fatal because the disease progression can be unpredictable and faster than imagined.
"With these important measures, we could mitigate the fatality rate. The novel coronavirus is still among us and is infecting people daily, including prominent members of the society. Friends and family have an increasingly important role to play in helping to guide compliance with this advisory. Till it goes away, we must take extreme precaution when going to public places."
Ehanire disclosed that treatment centres would be getting an advisory to test the applicability of a drug recently repurposed and found effective for COVID-19 treatment.
He also said Nigeria had signed a bilateral agreement with North Korea in the area of public health and medical sciences.
PTF National Coordinator, Sani Aliyu, stressed that COVID-19 was far from over.
He warned: “Now, more than ever before, if you go out, you're more likely to get COVID-19 than before.
"Your risk of acquiring COVID because of the numbers we’ve now is more than three, four weeks or five weeks ago when we had a lockdown, so there really is not any room or relaxation at this point.”
He noted that the government relaxed the lockdown to sustain the livelihood of Nigerians, particularly depending on a daily income for survival, as well as to sustain our economy “not because COVID has gone and it wasn't because we should be more relaxed in terms of our prevention measures.”
He said the government had noticed that a lot of people did not wear masks in public spaces "There are also concerns about physical distancing and the issue of mass gatherings.”
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, asked Nigerians to “pray not to get to the hospital. Pray not to get infected. And the only