{"id":230011,"date":"2020-06-25T19:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=230011"},"modified":"2020-06-25T19:04:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T18:04:53","slug":"coronavirus-nigerian-govt-raises-fresh-alarm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=230011","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Nigerian govt raises fresh alarm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The federal government has again raised the alarm over non-compliance to safety measures against coronavirus.<br \/>\nBoss Mustapha, Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, expressed concern at a briefing on Thursday in Abuja.<br \/>\nHe said PTF found that non-compliance had been largely fueled by skepticism and ignorance about the virus.<br \/>\nMustapha noted that stigmatisation had further impacted on the willingness of people to come out to seek help and tell their stories.<br \/>\n\u201cThe nature of this pandemic demands that we must detect and treat in order to address it. COVID-19 is not a condition to be ashamed of as it has no respect for status, nationality, race, creed, tribe among others\u201d, he said.<br \/>\nThe SGF stated that every person infected must be treated to prevent spread and avoidable fatalities.<br \/>\nHe added that the PTF had deepened community engagement and risk communication in the phase of national response.<br \/>\nMustapha said PTF had been communicating to Nigerians, the dangers of complacency and non-compliance with COVID-19 measures.<br \/>\nHe reminded that presently, \u201cthere is no known vaccine for the virus and that all over the world, non-pharmaceutical measures still remained the most effective\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cAvoiding being infected remains the best choice for everyone,\u201d Mustapha stressed.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has again raised the alarm over non-compliance to safety measures against coronavirus. Boss Mustapha, Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, expressed concern at a briefing on Thursday in Abuja. He said PTF found that non-compliance had been largely fueled by skepticism and ignorance about the virus. Mustapha noted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,3702,14052,14838],"class_list":["post-230011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-boss-mustapha","tag-corona-virus","tag-ptf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}