{"id":300147,"date":"2021-01-05T12:56:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=300147"},"modified":"2021-01-05T12:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:59:42","slug":"covid-19-gov-fintiri-bans-social-gatherings-of-more-than-50-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=300147","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Gov Fintiri bans social gatherings of more than 50 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has banned all social gatherings in the State until further notice.<br \/>\nFintiri gave the directive in a statement issued by his Press Secretary, Mr. Humwashi Wonosikou, on Tuesday in Yola, NAN reports.<br \/>\nHe warned that COVID-19 was real and is a global health crisis.<br \/>\n\u201dI am highly disappointed over the lack of strick adherence to the COVID-19 protocols and measures to reduce transmission of the virus.<br \/>\n\u201cThe measures, include advocacy of behaviours like wearing of face masks, social distancing, washing of hands, and restrictions on public gatherings.<br \/>\n\u201cTherefore, I am reminding the people of the state that the guidelines on restriction of movement issued in March, 2020, is still in force.<br \/>\n\u201cAll social gatherings of more than 50 people at this time is also still in force,\u201d Fintiri said.<br \/>\nHe said that hospitality businesses such as clubs, cinema halls, event centres, conferences and congresses and other similar gatherings with population beyond 100 remained banned.<br \/>\nAccording to the governor, movement between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. is also not allowed across the State.<br \/>\nHe advised leadership of worship centres to ensure strict observance of all COVID-19 protocols.<br \/>\n\u201cAny club, event centre or business premises found contravening this directive will be shut downtown with immediate effect.<br \/>\n\u201cSecurity agencies are hereby directed to ensure strict adherence to these protocols and any other protocol imposed by the Federal Government,\u201d Fintiri added.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State has banned all social gatherings in the State until further notice. Fintiri gave the directive in a statement issued by his Press Secretary, Mr. Humwashi Wonosikou, on Tuesday in Yola, NAN reports. He warned that COVID-19 was real and is a global health crisis. \u201dI am highly disappointed over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300148,"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":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,257,12579,14575],"class_list":["post-300147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-adamawa","tag-ahmad-fintiri","tag-covid-19"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300147","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=300147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}