By our reporter| The Kogi State government on Friday ordered the lifting the lockdown imposed on Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area of the state over suspected cases of coronavirus (COVID-19).
The governor who made the disclosure at government house in Lokoja, explained that the decision became necessary after the result of all the samples taken and subjected to tests by the health workers in the local government came out negative.
Given the outcome, the governor insisted that Kogi has remained a COVID-19-free state.
He, however, urged the people of the state to adhere to the protocols of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to curb the spread of the disease.
The governor had on Monday ordered a 14-day total lockdown in Kabba-Bubu.
He restricted the movement of residents and directed the house-to-house distribution of palliatives to residents within the local government.
The governor also directed that contact tracing should be carried out from one house to another to identify those who might have made contact with the persons said to be the COVID-19 index cases in the state – the Chief Imam of Kabba and his son.
He had also urged health workers who might have made contact with the suspected index cases to go into self-isolation.
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