Coronavirus: Yobe State Closes Border

As more and more cases of coronavirus are being recorded, the Yobe state government has declared a total lockdown of the state.

The state governor, Mai Mala Buni said the lockdown will be effective from midnight on Tuesday, 31st March 2020 made this known through the Director-General of Press and Media Affairs to the governor, Mamman Mohammed.

The statement reads Buni expressed gratitude to Allah (SWT) for sparing the state and its people since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and the zero status of the state.

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In spite of the state’s zero status, the government had taken adequate measures by establishing isolation centers with equipment and constituting a committee on Corona Virus under the chairmanship of the state Deputy Governor, Hon. Idi Barde Gubana.

A Rapid Response Team was also established to closely monitor any suspicious case as we remain grateful that we have no single case up to this moment.”

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