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COVID-19: ‘We Must Crush The Second Wave,Says Gov Ganduje

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"ulPSm62r" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"Kdob9338" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>As the second wave of COVID-19 resurfaces at the global arena&comma; of which Nigeria is not an exception&comma; Kano state governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje said the state would use the same technique used in the early days of the pandemic and crush the wave&comma; through prayers and optimal efforts that would be put by healthcare workers and all other stakeholders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He made the assertion during COVID-19 Press Briefing held at Africa House&comma; Government House&comma; Kano&comma; Friday&comma; he reveals that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We are back to the drawing board&period; This is because COVID-19 is also back in our communities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;21&sol;coronavirus-not-a-conspiracy-theory-dr-bashir-aliyu-umar&sol;">Coronavirus&comma; not a conspiracy theory-Dr Bashir Aliyu Umar&period;<&sol;a><&sol;p><div class&equals;"mtC4rNxe" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>As the situation at the national level bounces back&comma; we have no other option than to tighten our belts also and face it squarely&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Assuring that what the state did during the heydays of the pandemic&comma; needs to be repeated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8230&semi;so that we can win the war again&period; We have no time to waste&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Adding that &&num;8220&semi;All our infrastructural facilities&comma; though not out of use&comma; must be reinvigorated&period; For optimal use&comma; as it was the case before&period; We also have to recall all those volunteer workers back&period; Sometimes in the past we reduced the list of our volunteer healthcare workers&period; We must call them back to the field again&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Governor Ganduje said the state had no other option than to win the war against the pandemic&period; Emphasising that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Together with our Ulamas &lpar;religious leaders&rpar;&comma; our traditional leaders&comma; development partners&comma; non governmental organisations&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>community based organisations and all others&comma; we must take the fight to community levels&period; We must all be on the same page&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;As rightly observed by our technical committee on the negligence of our communities in complying with the COVID-19 protocols&comma; we are going to use security agencies to see that the protocols are followed&period; We are also going to use our Ulamas&comma; NGOs&comma; CBOs and all other stakeholders&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Adding that&comma; all public places must tighten strategies to see to the total compliance with the protocols as enunciated by healthcare workers&comma; &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8230&semi; and it is being obtained through global best practice&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he urged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On the palliative distribution&comma; which was under the former Vice Chancellor of Bayero University&comma; Kano&comma; Prof Muhammad Yahuza Bello and now under the Commissioner for Information&comma; Malam Muhammad Garba&comma; governor Ganduje appreciated that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We are lucky that our palliative distribution has been under people who are honest and diligent&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That&comma; according to him&comma; &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8230&semi;was why during the &num;EndSARS protest that our warehouses of our palliative materials were not attacked by hoodlums&period; Those responsible for the distribution of the palliative are people of proven integrity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And the same Palliative Committee has a very good distribution system&period; Where we have up to 4 stages for the distribution&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also thanked Kano youth who did not participate in the recent &num;EndSARS protest which turned into violent protests in some states of the federation&comma; saying that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Apart from commending our healthcare workers&comma; our COVID-19 Committee as well as the Technical Committee&comma; our traditional institutions&comma; development partners&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a statement by Abba Anwar &comma;the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ganduje said community and religious leaders&comma; our youth deserve all commendation for being too responsible to participate in the destruction of our warehouses&period; They did not participate&comma; which shows that they are responsible enough&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"1004305389"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; 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