The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said it
will provide guidance for businesses to take responsibility and re-open safely,
as it continues to work towards curtailing the spread of coronavirus disease in
the country.
The Director-General (DG), of NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu,
said this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF), media briefing on Monday, in
Abuja.
The Director-General said President Muhammadu Buhari had
expressed concerns over re-opening of the economy, when the PTF briefed him on
the public health response to COVID-19 in the country.
According to him, a decision was reached that Nigerians
might have to live with the pandemic for months in the foreseeable future.
He said “But how do we move from the narrative of a lockdown
to a narrative of a safe re-opening so that people can go back to their
livelihoods, why still staying safe from this virus?
“How do we do that in the farms, markets, schools, in
transports, our offices and in aviation?
“Really this has to be our focus in the coming weeks, to
provide guidance for businesses to take responsibility and re-open safely.
“But I was happy to hear the efforts being made by the
aviation industry, the detailed thinking that has started to happen in order to
eventually re-start.
“Similar conversations are going on in the education sector,
and I have the privilege of some of those.
“It will be much easier for Mr President, that when we visit
him in the next two weeks with a narrative that we are ready to re-open safely,
it will make his decisions easier.”
He also explained that the biggest challenge was how
Nigerians could ensure that small businesses opened safely.
“We must take every step in a deliberate and calculative
manner, due to what we have on ground with our healthcare, in order to give our
people succour.
“Industries and enterprises will be given guidelines of what
they need to put in place when issuing out phase two strategy of the lockdown
ease,” he added.
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