Delta State Government has warned that anyone seen in public without a face mask will be taken to any of the Isolation Centres in the state.
The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Charles Aniagwu, who disclosed this in Asaba on Monday, said the measure was part of the resolutions reached at a meeting of the Technical Committee for the Prevention of Covid-19 in Delta.
Aniagwu who briefed the press at the end of the meeting, said relaxing the lockdown for economic reasons should not jeopardize the safety of the people.
He said the compulsory use of face mask by all individuals in public places had commenced across the state and anyone seen without the mask would be taken to an isolation centre for wanting to infect others with the virus.
The Commissioner further revealed that any tricycle, okada’ or taxi carring passengers without face masks would be impounded, while any business centre attending to customers without face masks risk being closed down.
He restated that the period of the curfew in the state remained from 7pm to 6am and reaffirmed that no vehicle would be allowed into the state during the period, irrespective of the consignment being conveyed.
Aniagwu stated that more mobile courts had been created to try violators of government’s directives, stressing that the state was committed to applying preventive approach in tackling Covid-19.
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