Edo govt extends curfew for another 14 days

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, on Thursday, extended the dusk-to-dawn curfew in the state for another 14 days.

Obaseki, who stated this at a media briefing in Benin, said the curfew would run from 8:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.

The governor had on April 19 announced a 10-day dusk to dawn curfew to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the state.

At the briefing, he highlighted progress recorded by the state government in the efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 in Edo State.

He said: “Since my last public update about 10 days ago, we have made tremendous progress in the area of screening, testing and improving awareness on the pandemic for our people.

“Working closely with the public and private hospitals, we have screened no fewer than 20,000 people and tested 297 of them.

“This increased screening and testing is the reason for the increased number of cases in the state.

“We are aggressively pushing to screen our minimum target of about 500,000 people and test about one percent of them which is about 5,000 in the next few weeks.

“As we increase testing, we are likely to see an astronomic rise in the number of cases in the state.

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“Of the 20,000 people we have screened and the 297 samples taken, we have recorded 37 confirmed cases as of today, discharged eight and lost three people.

“It is worthy of note that late testing was a strong factor leading to fatality. That is why I am advising everybody to go out for screening at the numerous screening centres in the state.”

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