From Noah Ebije, KadunaAPC
Governor Nasir El-Rufai said Kaduna State is experiencing a rising wave of COVID-19 infections, warning that government is considering several options to manage the situation.
The governor urged citizens to adopt and practice the prevention protocols such as wearing face masks and avoiding crowded places and large gatherings to enable the state contain the situation without imposing another lockdown.
His media aide, Muyiwa Adekeye, in a statement, yesterday, said Governor El-Rufai conveyed his concern during the 2021 budget signing ceremony at Government House on Wednesday.
The governor expressed concern that infection rates are now hovering between 20 percent and 35 percent.
The statement quoted the governor as saying, “by August and September, we were down to 1 percent, 2 percent, 3 percent infection rates from samples we tested. Now, we are hovering between 20 percent and 35 percent.”
“The rate of infections is surging and we have now decided every employee of Kaduna State government must be tested and no person will be allowed to enter any government office, any hospital, any school, any public facility without mask and maintaining social distancing,’’ he said.
The governor said the state will “bring back mobile courts to enforce the wearing of masks because if we don’t do that, these infections will continue to rise and will affect the lives and livelihoods of our people.’’