The Imo State chairman of Covid-19 taskforce, Prof. Maurice
Iwu has said that the pandemic is being spread by people who probably do not
know they are carriers of the virus.
The individuals whom he referred to as “silent spreaders”,
“are moving freely with us and spreading the virus undetected.”
Iwu made this revelation while fielding questions with
newsmen on Tuesday in Owerri, the Imo State capital.
He regretted that the directives so far given by the
government to prevent the virus were not being taken seriously by the people.
“It will be wrong to say that coronavirus has been
contained. Our people are no longer obeying government’s directives because
they think that the tension has reduced. Let us not be complacent about the
tendency of this virus. It takes people unawares.
“There are people who may be carrying the virus but have no
knowledge of it. They are silent spreaders and are freely distributing the
virus,” he said.
He urged the government to intensify efforts, especially at
various borders of the State to prevent the silent spreaders from entering the
State.
On the news making the rounds that Imo state had recorded 26
cases of late, he admitted that three Hummer buses carrying over 90 passengers
enroute from Lagos were intercepted at a border in the State and 26 tested
positive.
According to him, one person out of the 26 is from Imo state
and has been sent to an Isolation Centre in the State, while the rest 25 were
stopped from entering the State.
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