{"id":25163,"date":"2020-03-09T22:01:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25163"},"modified":"2020-03-09T22:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T21:01:48","slug":"nigeria-gets-task-force-to-control-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25163","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria gets task force to control Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">By<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">GarbaShehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Given the current global outbreak of the novel Coronavirus and its potential of causing significant disruption to health services in the country as well as impacting negatively on the economy, President Muhammadu Buhari has established a Presidential Task Force for the Control of the Coronavirus-19 Disease (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This action is in preparation for the unlikely but probable major outbreak of the disease in the country which will require a multi-sectoral inter-governmental approach as advised by the World Health Organisation (WHO) similar to that adopted for the HIV epidemic in the last two decades.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The start and finish task group which would be expected to deliver within a maximum period of six months, comprises the following:<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">a.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Boss Mustapha (SGF) \u2013 Chair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">b.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Sani Aliyu \u2013 National Coordinator<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">c.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hon. Minister of Health<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">d.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hon. Minister of Interior<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">e.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hon. Minister of Aviation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">f.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hon. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Services<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">g.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hon. Minister of Education<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">h.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hon. Minister of Information and Culture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">i.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hon. Minister of Environment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">j.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Director-General, State Services<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">k.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">l.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0WHO Country Representative<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GarbaShehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media &amp; Publicity) Given the current global outbreak of the novel Coronavirus and its potential of causing significant disruption to health services in the country as well as impacting negatively on the economy, President Muhammadu Buhari has established a Presidential Task Force for the Control of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[870,340],"class_list":["post-25163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-task-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}