Governors in the northwest region have shut down schools for
30 days amid the outbreak of coronavirus.
Nigeria currently has eight confirmed cases of the virus but
none has been recorded in the north though some patients underwent test which
proved negative.
Addressing journalists at the end of a regional meeting in
Kaduna on Wednesday, Aminu Masari, governor of Katsina and chairman of the
North-West Governors’ Forum, said the decision was taken to prevent the spread
of coronavirus in the region.
Masari said the closure will take effect from Monday, March
23, 2020.
The governor also said there would be sensitisation
campaigns to discourage large gatherings until further notice.
“States will continue to wage aggressive campaigns to
encourage citizens to uphold personal hygiene, including hand washing and
environmental sanitation,” he said.
The northwest governors as well well as their colleagues in
Niger and Kwara states which share boundaries with the zone, also “resolved to
jointly fund security operations aimed at conclusively addressing the security
challenges” bedeviling their various states.
Present at the meeting were Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Abubakar
Badaru (Jigawa), Nasir el-Rufai (Kaduna) Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Bello
Matawalle (Zamfara) and Abubakar Sani Bello (Niger).
The governor of Kwara State joined the meeting by telephone.
Lagos had earlier announced the move to suspend services in
churches and mosques to check the spread of the virus.
There are currently eight cases of coronavirus in Nigeria.
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