By Amos Aar
THE DIRECTOR of Livestock Services at the Benue State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (MAFS), Dr Edward Amali, has alerted the public that Corona Virus (COVID-19) pandemic which broke out worldwide in 2019 with some cases recorded in Benue State before containment is coming up again.
Dr Amali, who specialises in fumigation, told journalists during an interview in his office that COVID-19 was not eliminated completely hence it remained in the bodies of affected persons hence the upsurge.
He said some countries have already started experiencing the recurrence, urging Benue people and Nigerians at large to continue to observe preventive measures which according to him include fumigation of surroundings and all other precautionary habits and practices embraced in 2019 when the pandemic broke out and overlapped to 2021.
“In as much as we are not praying for the thing to come up in full as it did before, we want to step up prevention activities so that it doesn’t even come up in our state at all.
“With the last COVID experience, we stand in a position to say yes, our preventive measures in the past were effective. We are believing that now, hearing this news, we will be putting those apparatus together that we will begin to enlighten people about prevention measures”
Asked to remind Nigerians about the preventive measure observed in the past, Dr Amali said “you remember at that time, there was a committee set up by His Excellency then and this committee was broken down to subcommittees. In our ministry here, we were particularly in charge of fumigation. So, in the fumigation for example, we did a lot of work in all the local governments of this state; going to hospitals, clinics, personal and public properties and fumigating them”, the Director said.
