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COVID-19 Delta variant: Avoid unnecessary travelings during Eid-el-Adha celebrations, NCDC urges Nigerians

Muslim News Nigeria by Muslim News Nigeria
July 14, 2021
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COVID-19 Delta variant: Avoid unnecessary travelings during Eid-el-Adha celebrations, NCDC urges Nigerians

As Muslim faithful prepare to mark the 2021 Eid-el-Adha celebrations next week, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has warned against trips that characterize the period.

NCDC Head of Risk Communications Division, Dr. Yahya Disu, handed down the warning on Wednesday during Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily breakfast show monitored by The PUNCH.

Disu said the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic started in Nigeria because people traveled for Christmas last December. He, therefore, urged Nigerians to avoid unnecessary trips as Sallah celebrations hold next week.

With the detection of the Delta COVID-19 variant in Nigeria, experts warned against a fresh lockdown, stating that imposing a new lockdown would have devastating impacts on the economy.

The experts spoke against the background of a third wave of COVID-19 with the steady rise in positive cases in the last week and the discovery of a new variant of the virus in Nigeria.

The deadly Delta variant is recognized by the World Health Organisation as a variant of concern, given its increased transmissibility.

The variant has been detected in over 90 countries and is expected to spread to more countries, according to the NCDC.

Speaking of the third wave, the NCDC official said, “Before now, we knew the third wave was going to be inevitable. Third wave is about having an increase in the number of cases. We have had an increase and decrease in the number of cases before now. So, the third one is starting but what is important is what we are able to do to ensure that we are able to reduce it.”

He urged religious leaders to sensitize their followers on the need to strictly observe COVID-19 protocols in order to prevent rise in recorded infections.

Disu said, “More importantly, Sallah is coming when people just travel and that makes the risk higher in villages, in different parts of the country. So, we need to warn people: they don’t need to travel if it is not necessary, you can celebrate where you are. During Sallah, we go to mosque in large numbers but this is the time we need to be very cautious.

“We are working with the religious organizations. The second wave in Nigeria started because of Christmas because people traveled for Christmas. So, we can avoid it, we can learn from it. A life that we lost is very important for every one of us, it could be anybody. So, it is not worth it to lose a life because we want to celebrate Sallah or Christmas.”

Nigeria has recorded over 168,000 cases of COVID-19 and more than 2,100 associated deaths since the index case of the virus was reported in the country in March 2020, according to statistics by NCDC who continues to urge Nigerians to maintain social distancing and hygiene practices as well as use masks in public to prevent transmission of the lethal virus which has been identified to move through droplets.

 

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