The Anambra State Government has commenced community search for people exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms of dry cough, constant sneezing and shortness of breath.
The Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr C-Don Adinuba, who disclosed this yesterday, in Awka, the state capital, said task forces had been inaugurated in the 21 local government areas and 326 wards of the state for that purpose.
The Commissioner asserted that as the campaign against the Coronavirus pandemic in Anambra State has now entered the phase of community searching, the state government has decided to establish a COVID-19 Task Force in each of the 21 local government areas in the state.
He explained that each Task Force will be headed by the Chairman of the Transition Committee, and members will constitute the Health Officer, Information Officer, Disease and Surveillance Officer and the Ministry of Health COVID-19 Laision Officer in the LGA.
Explaining further, the Commissioner informed that government has also decided to set up a COVID-19 Task Force in each of the 326 wards in the state and that members will be the Ministry of Health Liaison officer, the officer in charge of the main Primary Healthcare in the ward, Youth Leader in the ward, the Women’s Leader in the ward, the Development Ward Chairman and the Councillor of the ward who will head it.
He pointed out that both Task Forces are to take to the grassroots the message of the dangers of COVID-19 and how to prevent the spread of the disease.
He enjoined members of various communities to provide relevant information to the Task Forces in the LGAs and in the 326 wards in the State.
He stressed that relevant information includes the presence of strangers in their midst, the return of persons who have in the last two weeks been to states with high incidences of the coronavirus pandemic and individuals who exhibit such COVID-19 symptoms as dry cough, constant sneezing and shortness of breath.
The Information Commissioner advised that they may report such cases to their community leaders like town union presidents-general and traditional rulers, stating that the majority of the people of the state had been cooperative in the fight against COVID-19, but regretted that there were some who refused to abide by the national curfew from 8pm to 6am, wear face masks and deliberately wear face coverings on their jaws.
He described such actions of defaulters as having colossal consequences and hinted that state government had set up mobile courts to try offenders.
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