The Senate called on the country’s stakeholders to kill the nation’s economy with the European pleasure of combating the coronavirus pandemic, COVID -19.
The Senate sounded alarm in the context of the imported concept of combating COVID-19.
Speaking at an interactive consultation between the Senate Aviation and Health Committees and with aviation and fitness stakeholders on the protective measures put on the floor after the start of domestic and foreign flights in the country, Chairman, Senate Aviation Committee, Senator Smart Adeyemi, APC, Kogi West said that, based on the realities of the floorArray , COVID-19 is real, but not difficult in Nigeria and many African countries.
According to him, on the basis of this reality, it is up to the country’s actors to swallow hook, line and lead, and measures are being taken to combat it in Europe, America, China, etc.
In the meantime, dr. Sani Aliyu, national coordinator of the Presidential Working Group (TFP) on COVID-19, admitted that poverty is one of the toughest weapons opposed to the pandemic.
Speaking more, Senator Adeyemi said: “There is something about us as Africans that is not in them in Europe and America, which made COVID-19 not a crisis here, like him there.
“If this is not done, negative measures for the livelihoods and well-being of Nigerians should be avoided, so as not to kill the nation’s economy. “
Adeyemi, who in particular criticized the policy followed through the Presidential Working Group (TFP) on COVID-19, which only allows personal laboratories to conduct tests on long-distance travellers, said the measure was negative for average Nigerians who are forced to cough N75. 000 for such tests.
He said: “The amount is too high, laboratories from public fitness establishments will be reduced and supplied for testing.
“People do not place it simple abroad because of the way and how the COVID-19 pandemic is being fought in the country and as the representatives of the people, who approach us, point to an anti-government revolt in December if drastic measures are not taken to make things easier then. “
Similarly, Senator Biodun Olujimi (PDP Ekiti South) referred to the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, and the TFP National Coordinator, Dr. Sani Aliyu, on the usefulness of the face mask in Nigeria despite the realities of the terrain.
According to Olujimi, about what he saw in many communities in Ekiti state last week, citizens abandoned its use and added: “When I visited some communities in Ekiti state last week, no one put on a mask and, in fact, some of them told me who had put it on, not to bring them COVID 19.
“These are clear symptoms that the strategies and approaches used to combat the pandemic want to be reassessed and changed because the pandemic, for reasons yet to be scientifically established, is much less harsh here than in Europe, America, etc.
He asked the national TFF coordinator the reasons for good luck in Nigeria.
In response, Dr. Sani Aliyu said that the three known reasons are poverty, demographics and the competitive nature of African countries that oppose the pandemic, adding that although poverty in the context of good fortune opposed to COVID-19 in Nigeria is controversial. , it is controversial, sometimes that the pandemic is weakening in crowded and suffocating areas.
He said: “Demographically, only 3% of Nigerians have more than 65 to 20%, 18%, etc. European and American countries where the death toll is high.
“The competitive nature of African countries in the face of the pandemic has also helped contain the spread of the pandemic in Nigeria and many African countries”
However, the joint committee ordered the Minister and the National TFF Coordinator to expand the scope of laboratory tests for the pandemic, adding public evidence and relief in the position of testing.
The chairman of the joint committee, Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe (APC Kwara Central), said the committee expects reaction action plans from the minister and TFF in the next two weeks.
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