April 17, 2020

Alhaji Ahmed Matane, Secretary to the State Government and Chairman of Task Force on COVID-19 said the Juma’at Prayer will hold between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. under strict observance of all the precautionary measures.

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He urged Muslim faithful to adhere to using hand sanitisers, face masks, hand washing facilities with soap and water, maintaining social distancing and avoiding contact base greetings before, during and after the prayer session.

Matane explained that the sermon and prayers would …

The drop shows that every patient is now infecting less than one other person on an average.

After this so-called reproduction number drops below one, an epidemic usually will slowly subside.

Germany is currently at 0.7, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said. This means that 10 coronavirus patients will only end up infecting seven other people – leading to a drop in the number of daily new infections.

But the RKI also cautioned …