The Federal Government has said that Nigerian youths between the ages
of 20 and 40 are majorly responsible for the spread of the COVID-19,
while the majority of those bearing the brunt are older people from 50
years and above.
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for
Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said this on Thursday in
Abuja at the 48th joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force
(PTF) on COVID-19.
“As more people are infected across the
world, you would have seen the numbers, it is increasingly obvious that
transmission among younger people really, not children, but people aged
between 20 and 40 as far as we know are really driving the spread of
this virus, but those that are bearing the brunt of it are people age 50
and above.
“Three out of five people who died from COVID-19 are
50 and above so we have to work harder, all of us collectively to
protect our elderly.
“We are on the verge of opening our
airports, we have relaxed Intercity travel. “We know that we have a
family-loving people and that over the next few weeks we will all start
having this urge to go and visit our parents, our, uncles, our aunts,
restart the funeral activities that we have postponed for months, start
the weddings, birthing, baptisms that we have postponed for months.
“It
is important to do these things and the interstate travel will allow us
to do this but remember we haven’t relaxed the guidelines of mass
gatherings,” Ihekweazu said.
He said that as the nation plan
over the next few weeks or months, citizens have to remember that there
are still restrictions on mass gatherings, but that everyone has to show
the elderly citizens love and affection by not exposing them to the
virus.
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