NCDC has released the daily update concerning the pandemic, Coronavirus.
Ten new cases has been recorded on 2nd of April making the total number of cases 184, 20 has been discharged and death, 2.
Of the ten new cases reported on 2nd of April, 7 are in Lagos while 3 are in Abuja.
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Ever since the outbreak of this pandemic, Coronavirus things have not been the same again in the Nigeria local markets.
The lockdown and “Stay at home” order from the government has turned to a means of exploitation of the poor masses by a few group.
Prices of foodstuffs have skyrocketed to the extent Nigerians barely feed again.
Due to this, a group of youths storm Iwofe market in Portharcourt in the morning today, destroying garri and other things. Our eye-witness, Akapaul Francis narrates that:
“Garri is sold at 1,500Naira at the market. This angered the youths and forced them into action” he said.
Now our question is, do you think the youths did the right thing?
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is set to increase its capacity to test for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to 1500 per day in the country.
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director General of NCDC, gave the reassurance at the Presidential Taskforce Briefing on COVID-19 on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ihekweazu said that the focus of NCDC efforts was to improve the number of people that could be tested.
“Last week, we had the capacity to test 500 per day, by the end of this week we will be at 1000 a day.
“By next week we are hoping to get to 1500 a day, “ he said.
Ihekweazu, however, said that Nigerians need to reduce the demand side of the testing to those who really needed it.
He noted that the more the people force themselves into being tested, the less NCDC would have the capacity to test those who really need the testing.
Ihekweazu said that these people that really need the testing would be transmitting it into the community and more people would get infected.
According to him, by testing those that do not need it, people are blocking the system and there’s a price to pay.
In a related development, the Minister for Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq , said that the ministry was unrelenting in its school children feeding.
She said, rather, the ministry would liaise with the state governments to work out the modalities to know how to go about the programme, despite the stay-at-home directive.
Farouq also disclosed that the ministry has about 2.6 million poor and vulnerable households on its social register.
She said that, so far, the ministry had reached out to about 1 million indigent people.
The Acting President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Monica Dogban-Mesem, has urged lawyers and litigants seeking to access the court, to do so through online communication, saying the directive was to ameliorate the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Justice Dogban-Mesem, in a fresh operational directive for the Court dated March 30, ordered that all matters pending before Divisions of the Court of Appeal in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun State, should cease.
She based the order on the ongoing 14-day lockdown directive by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Owing to the lockdown directive, the Acting PCA, stated: “I hereby issue an interim practice directive that all matters pending before the Court sitting in the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Ogun State shall cease in compliance thereof.
“Meanwhile, all Court proceedings for States not mentioned in the Presidential lockdown Directive of 30/03/2020 shall continue in line with the Directives issued by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Dr. Tanko Muhammad CFR on 23/03/2020.
“The Bench and the Bar are enjoined to strictly observe the guidelines on Social Distancing as directed by the National Centre for Disease Control.
“Counsel and Litigants present in court should be limited to 20 Persons maximum at all times.
“The use of ICT via online communication is hereby encouraged as much as practicable to ameliorate the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
“All Hon. Justices and Staff members of the Court are enjoined to support the efforts of the Federal Government by observing all guidelines”.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on Abidjan’s second-hand goods and clothing market.
At the Angré market, a neighborhood north of the city, the coronavirus pandemic has led to a drop in activities as traders and consumers fear catching the new virus through the purchase and use of second-hand clothes.
Zossou Junior Kings, a salesman told the media: “The clothes we sell in Africa come directly from Europe. So once they are infected there and then it comes to Africa, it can also infect you.
“So if the government can help us in this business by controlling what leaves the European continent to come to Africa and control it directly at the port.”
Although statistics on the rate of patronage of second-hand clothing in the country is not readily available, traders say its purchased by all classes of people.
Lobue Keren, a shopper said: “I once wore what we call second-hand clothes but i got spots all over me. Even though I washed them and dried them afterwards I saw spots on my body. So I stopped (buying second-hand clothes) and prefer to buy new clothes.”
The Government of Ivory Coast has introduced a curfew to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The country has closed all of its borders while the number of cases of contamination has exceeded 80 since Wednesday.
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