Gov Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State, has disclosed that all the 12 positive cases of COVID-19 in the state flouted Presidential order on restriction of inter-state movement.
Ugwuanyi made the disclosure in Enugu during a statewide broadcast on COVID-19 pandemic, in Enugu.
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He, therefore, asked all those charged with the responsibility of protecting all land boundaries in the state “to put more efforts to ensure that the boundaries were properly secured to curb this unfortunate importation of the COVID-19 into the state”.
He urged the people of the state to continue to abide by the protocol of the NCDC, including the mandatory use of face masks/ covering in public, maintaining social/physical distancing and high level of personal and respiratory hygiene.
He further reassured the people that his administration would continue to do all within its powers to effectively contain the spread of the pandemic in the state.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr Ikechukwu Obi, who confirmed the case, said the new case was an indigene of Ebonyi State resident in Enugu.
Obi said the woman, who was married, had been in Kano for the past two months and then returned on May 4.
“All efforts to stem the influx of persons who are not on essential services through our borders are welcome and encouraged,” the commissioner said. (NAN)
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