Disclosing this to journalists in Calabar, Cross River State capital, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Betta Edu said that ”a lot of people are coming in from Southern Cameroons into our State, all our borders across the State are presently being mounted by security operatives.
She added that the State now had a newly constructed permanent isolation centre located at an isolated environment at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital . “We have other temporal ones at the General Hospital Ogoja and Calabar. The Permanent Isolation centre has been fully furnished and it is ready to be use in case we have any suspected case. The other two have not met the WHO standard. We are currently carrying out sensitization in all our local government areas, army, and other security agencies,” he said.
To this end, Dr Edu along with other health team and officials of World Health Organisation in the state said they had visited the Margaret Ekpo International Airport and other port of entry into the start to supervise proper screening of travellers.
In what capacity? Border or boundary? State government doesn't have authority at the border.
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