Only essential services critical to daily livelihoods were allowed, while non- essential movements were restricted.
The Guardian sighted task force teams enforcing the directive, while ambulances were stationed to do the needful like the state Tele Health Response equipped to receive telephone calls from those in need of medical attention and attend to them using its link to the 722 primary health centres in the state’s 17 council areas.
Governor Umahi stated this during a broadcast on government’s programme to curtail the spread of coronavirus, adding that holding and observation centres have been established in six locations across the state. “With the assistance of the Federal Government, reagents have been configured to fit into the screening machines owned by the state government. With the three treatment and isolation centres and check points at various borders, the state is ready to prevent the spread of COVID-19,” he stated.
A member of the Imo State COVID -19 prevention Taskforce, Dr. Dunga Kingsley, made the disclosure while speaking on a Peoples Voic, programme in an Owerri-based private radio station, Darling FM.
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