Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has announced the amendment of the Quarantine Order to allow for a significant reopening of the state from Wednesday, 10 June 2020.
In a state broadcast on Tuesday, the governor, however, said this is subject to compliance with safe reopening protocols, adding that the measures will be in place in the first instance until 30th June 2020, subject to amendment, extension or renewal.
He listed the measures to include:
“Restriction of intra-state movement is lifted, subject to a night-time curfew of 8pm to 5am.
“Businesses can reopen, subject to the provision of thermometers for temperature checks, sanitizers or handwashing equipment and physical distancing measures within all facilities. Working hours will be 9am to 3pm daily.
“Church services are allowed only on Sundays and Mosques are allowed to conduct only Friday Jumat services, for the time being, subject to compliance with the safety stipulations above.
“Transport operators must reduce capacity to not more than two passengers per row and not more than 50% of capacity;
“Supermarkets and providers of personal services such as hair dressing and barbing salons can reopen;
“Hotels can fully open, but with their restaurants and bars offering only room service.
“Restaurants may all reopen after decontamination, but are still restricted to takeaway services.
“Public servants will be summoned back to work in phases to be announced by the Head of Service.”
The governor also gave qn update on the state’s effort to contain the dreaded coronavirus.
He said as at Monday, 8th June 2020, Kaduna State has conducted 2895 tests out of which 363 have returned positive, adding that 11 Deaths have been recorded.
“Two of the fatalities had been admitted in the isolation center and died after their samples were taken. All the others had their samples taken after they died. Seven of the deaths were in patients older than 65.
“Two were aged above 80. All the old persons we lost presented very late and some had underlying causes such as Diabetes, Hypertension, Bronchitis, and Cancer.”
According to the governor, Kaduna State has a very high success rate in the testing and treatment of infected persons.
“So far, Covid-19 infections have been recorded in a total of 47 wards spread across 10 local government areas: Chikun, Giwa, Igabi, Jema’a, Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Makarfi, Sabon-Gari, Soba and Zaria.
“74% of the cases are in four local government areas: Kaduna North, Igabi (due to the 67 almajirai), Zaria and Chikun, followed closely by Sabon-Gari and Kaduna South with 14% of cases. Chikun has eight, while Kaduna North and Zaria have seven each of the 47 affected wards.
“The highest number of infections has been in the 15-19 age group but this is because of the number of almajirai that tested positive. The 25-29 age group is the second highest infected group because of the tendency to move around and mix a lot.”
