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COVID-19: Our People Are Farmers, We Can’t Lockdown North – Northern Govs

Published by Maxzealno on April 15th, 2020.

The Northern States Governors’ Forum, following a meeting they held Monday, April 13, came to the conclusion that total lockdown would not work in their regions as most of the indigenes are farmers.
The meeting, which was conducted via teleconference by the governors to discuss the impact of coronavirus in the region suggests another measure to curb the spread of the global pandemic in the regions rather than declaring a total lockdown of its states.
The Chairman of the forum, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State, who spoke in a statement via his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Dr Macham Makut, revealed that the governors have agreed in one voice to strengthen preventive measures again so the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic through enhanced boundary controls and surveillance

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