{"id":33767,"date":"2020-12-22T18:51:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33767"},"modified":"2020-12-22T18:51:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T18:51:30","slug":"gov-ikpeazu-releases-new-covid-19-guidelines-orders-compulsory-use-of-face-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ikpeazu-releases-new-covid-19-guidelines-orders-compulsory-use-of-face-mask","title":{"rendered":"Gov Ikpeazu releases new COVID-19 guidelines, orders compulsory use of face mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Abia State government led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has issued new guidelines to stem the second wave of the deadly COVID-19 disease.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the Secretary to Abia State Government, Barr Chris Ezem, who informed that the state government has launched an operation; confirm your COVID status, in the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Barr Ezem, who also ordered residents of the state to wear face mask, the new guideline follows the new surge in COVID-19 cases, which is currently spreading across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He thus advised residents of the state to visit the molecular laboratories in Aba and Amachara for COVID-19 tests in order to ascertain their COVID-19 status.<\/p>\n<p>Barr Ezem said; \u201cTo adequately confront and mitigating the effect of the Pandemic on residents and Abians alike, Government hereby ban all public gathering in the State till further notice.<\/p>\n<p><b>READ ALSO: Abia governor suspends chief of staff for spraying money on pastor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll public offices and institutions including Ministries, Departments, Agencies, Banks, school, hospitals etc are directed to deny access to persons seeking any form of assistance in their offices\/institution without face masks and such visitors\/clients must be made to comply 100% to all COVID-19 protocols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEateries and hospitality centers in the State are to operate on a take-away bases, henceforth while full compliance to covid-19 protocols must be duly observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious worships, Market and transport activities must be carried out henceforth as specified by the State Government and under strict compliance to all Covid-19 protocols.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State and Local Government Enforcement Teams, Homeland security as well as law enforcement agencies are directed to be at their best enforcing compliance to all the covid-19 protocols in order to maintain a flat curve to the deadly pandemic in the State,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Opinions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Abia State government led by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has issued new guidelines to stem the second wave of the deadly COVID-19 disease. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the Secretary to Abia State Government, Barr Chris Ezem, who informed that the state government has launched an operation; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,1585,2100,2098,1541,2099,254],"class_list":["post-33767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-covid-19-2","tag-covid-19-guidelines","tag-face-mask","tag-ikpeazu","tag-new-covid-19-guidelines","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov Ikpeazu releases new COVID-19 guidelines, orders compulsory use of face mask - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-ikpeazu-releases-new-covid-19-guidelines-orders-compulsory-use-of-face-mask\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov Ikpeazu releases new COVID-19 guidelines, orders compulsory use of face mask\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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