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COVID 19: Borno bans visits to IDP camps

Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, right, with his deputy, Umar Kadafur in ‘Covid-19 greeting’ when the Governor returned from New Marte… at the Nigerian Air Force base in Maiduguri yesterday.

Borno State Government on Monday imposed a four-week ban on visitors to all Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the state.

The move is part of the state’s strategy to contain the outbreak of the virus in the state.

Zulum had last week appointed the state’s deputy governor, Umar Kadafur to chair a high powered multi-stakeholder response team which has all agencies of the United Nations led by the World Health Organization and Borno’s ministries of health, education, transport, information, local governments, religious affairs and agencies involved with humanitarian affairs.

The latest move which bans all visitors to IDPs camps was announced by the Chairperson of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Hajiya Yabawa Kolo who is member of Zulum’s response team.

She announced the ban during a meeting with 51 camp managers on Monday in Maiduguri.

According to her, the state took the decision as one of the strategies to prevent the importation of the virus at the camps into the state, adding that the measure became necessary as some of the neighbouring countries like Chad Republic and Cameroon have recorded suspected cases.

She explained that despite closure of the borders by the neighbouring countries, there was still influx of IDPs into the state.

The Borno SEMA Boss directed all camp managers from Gamboru-Ngala, Damasak, Kalabalge, Banki, Bama and Monguno not to accept IDPs from any neighbouring country into their camps.

She said; “We know we have a lot of threat around us following sighting of suspected cases of the virus in Cameroon and Chad and we have some border towns very close to those countries.

“We do not want to go to the issue of response because even in developed countries, it was difficult for them to contain this pandemic. So at our own level, we are positioning ourselves to see how best we can stop the virus from transmitting in the state” she noted.

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