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COVID-19: NIN Registration May Be Suspended – Health Minister

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Jan 11, 2021.

Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, Minister of State for Health, says the ongoing registration and National Identification Number enrolment may be suspended due to the rise Covid-19.

Upon giving the last report of the cases been confirmed, he said it is a wake-up call to all Nigerian that Covid-19 is real.

Mamora while playing host on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday, said it would be wise if NIN enrolment and registration is suspended.

His words: “I don’t feel good looking at the picture where people are gathered in multitude; it’s like a super-spreader event which we don’t like. But I’m also aware that the relevant ministry which is the communications and digital economy is looking at this.

“My understanding is that the whole process may be suspended so as to reorder the whole process in terms of management of the crowd because it was never intended that it would become a rowdy process like that.

“We have a duty as government to ensure that people are protected; we also have a duty to ensure people comply within the limit of what is good for the society at large.”

Recall that as at Sunday, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 1,544 new infections of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country, leading to a total of 100,087 cases across the federation.

1358 are reported dead since Coronavirus stormed Nigeria on February, 2020. Also, about 80,030 persons have been treated and discharged.

See last report below

1024 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria;

Lagos-653
Plateau-63
Benue-48
Zamfara-45
FCT-42
Rivers-27
Ondo-26
Adamawa-26
Kaduna-22
Edo-18
Ogun-16
Imo-12
Kano-9
Yobe-6
Ekiti-5
Jigawa-4
Osun-2

100,087 confirmed
80,030 discharged
1,358 deaths pic.twitter.com/PJ5jeyBoS7

— NCDC (@NCDCgov) January 10, 2021