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Breaking: REPS Calls For Ban On Open Worship, Public Gatherings Over Coronavirus
Barely two hours after the Federal Government imposed a travel ban on 13 high-risk coronavirus infested countries, the House of Representatives in an effort to safeguard Nigerians from the virus has also implemented a ban on open worship and other public gatherings till further notice.
Ekohotblog understands that the House also directed the airport authorities across the country to put in place mechanisms to discourage crowd gatherings.
Part of the decisions reached during plenary today also Included mandating compulsory laboratory tests on all staff and members of the national assembly to ascertain their status, ban on visitors from accessing the national assembly complex.
The house in its deliberations equally urged the government to sign a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with the Singaporean government to produce testing kits for Nigeria, adding that all public institutions in Nigeria should be equipped with temperature gauge.
It also called for one-day national prayers and ordered the Minister of Health to brief the House leadership on the situation on a weekly basis.
Nigeria as at today had recorded 8 cases but with no death.
The House reached the resolutions on the heels of a motion debated for over an hour under “Matters of Urgent Public Importance” during Wednesday plenary.
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