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Happening now: Presidential Task Force Briefing on #COVID19

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Ladies and gentlemen, Let me remind us all that this pandemic is real and spreading like wildfire.

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25 deaths have sadly recorded and 197 people have been successfully treated for #COVID19 and discharged.

-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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All persons diagnosed with #COVID19 be henceforth preferably treated in the state where the diagnosis was made rather than to be referred to another state.
-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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Patent & propriety medicine vendors, pharmacies & chemists are henceforth prohibited from attempting to treat persons with diagnosed with or suspected to be #COVID19 patients. Otherwise their licences may be cancelled.
-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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Private hospitals desiring to manage #COVID19 cases should apply to their state ministries of health for a permit.

-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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Those with existing medical conditions like diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease,TB, HIV, cancer; are advised to take special care and to obey the injunctions of taking special care.

-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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We advise the use of tissue or handkerchief when you are coughing.
-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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Remember to wash and sun-dry your reusable face masks or iron your cloth masks.
-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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I will like to remind the public that the Minister of Health says that the majority of persons with coronavirus infection will get well.

-Sani Aliyu

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We are interested in the remedies that are proposed, if it works, the Ministry of Health has a department for 'Traditional, Complimentary & Alternative Medicine', so anything that is thought to have efficacy should be brought forward.
-Osagie Ehanire

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Now we are in the community transmission phase & we have passed that era when people used to think that #COVID19 was something for big men & big women who came from abroad.

-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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Now that it is in the grassroots level, the role of the Primary health care now comes to play & it is very important for them to do the surveillance to raise the index of suspicion.
-Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health

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The security agencies are working round the clock to apprehend & unveil the spate of fake news, clearly it's no use appealing to them.
-Lai Mohammed

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We are constrained by the facilities that are available.
-Geoffrey Onyeama

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We are looking at the more pressing & immediate challenge of Nigerians who are trapped outside & want to come back home.
-Geoffrey Onyeama

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We have students who are stuck in Khartoum in Sudan, because they are children, we have to bend over backwards to find the resources to pay for their return & also for their 2-week isolation.

-Geoffrey Onyeama

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Right now the Ministry of Education is not running on full speed.
-Emeka Nwajuba, Minister of State for Education
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All our students that went out on scholarship are adequately catered for.
-Emeka Nwajuba, Minister of State for Education
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We have introduced our door to door testing which have have presented themselves as the epicenter of this pandemic.
-Boss Mustapha

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