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Fantastic #COVID19 conversation IG Live today with @purrples SA to @kfayemi on Communications and Strategy.

Thanks to all the participants who took the conversation to another level especially @Facebook - who offered to help with public health comms on WhatsApp and FB
Also @MTechLaw who offered to help with content development.
Summary of Call:
Ekiti State has been preparing since March 2, 2020
COVID19 Task Force is broad based and includes representatives from NURTW, Market Associations and Transport/Mass Transit regulation
Sensitization has been ongoing and now being ramped up. Messaging has been translated to 7 languages and will be deployed on radio.
A lot of sensitization is door to door.
@kfayemi's executive order is being monitored for compliance by members of the Task Force and their teams
@ekitistategov has secured PPEs for healthcare workers and have distributed them to hospitals.
State is exploring opportunities to develop its own testing capacity to compliment @NCDCgov testing
State has acquired ventilator(s?) for the isolation centre and other equipment to manage SARS symptoms.
Contact tracing for index case is done. Mostly healthcare workers in the secondary (private hospital) and tertiary (teaching hospital) healthcare facilities where the presumptive #COVID19 case was treated.
The state welcomes any help it can get from private sector, development partners and volunteers.
Entire call is available on my IG story for the next 24hrs.
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