Anambra Tasks Citizens on Campaign against COVID-19

The Anambra State Government has appealed to traditional rulers, presidents of town unions, market groups, transport unions, trade unions, professional groups, the organised private sector, civil servants as well as religious leaders to be on the frontlines of the spirited campaign by the state government to prevent the spared of COVID-19 to the state.

The appeal was made by the Anambra State’s Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C. Don

Adinuba, who said that it should not be left for the state government and medical doctors to fight the spread of the virus alone.

Adinuba made the appeal when he announced the proactive measures being taken by the state government to ensure that state is free from the onslaught of COVID-19. The measures, according to Adinuba, include the shutdown schools, directive that civil servants not on essential services to work from home and the reduction of the number of passengers in tricycles and buses as well as the setting up of a 23-person Coronavirus Attack Team to work against the contagion in the state by the Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Willie Obiano.

He said: “To underscore the importance of the team’s work, Governor Obiano chose to head the team himself. Other members include the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Secretary to the State Government, the Chief of Staff to the Governor, the Commissioner for Health and his counterpart in the Ministry of Information and Public Enlightenment, the state

Commissioner of Police, heads of the two teaching hospitals in the state and specialists from relevant fields.”

Adinuba identified motor parks and open markets as potential areas where the virus could spread fast, since it is contracted mostly through person-to-person contact and physical surfaces.

He noted that the state government is bothered by the wrong attitude of people who though are aware of the highly infectious disease, but strangely believed that for superstitious and other strange reasons, that they could not be infected.