Stay at home/Curfew: Edo state commences house to house testing for covid19 as the governor imposes an additional 10 day dusk to dawn Curfew

One of the best and proactive governors (apart from his Lagos state counterpart Sanwo Olu) during the covid19 pandemic in Nigeria is the Edo state governor- Godwin Obaseki. Since the onset of the first recorded case of the corona virus at the Igbinedion University Teaching Hospital (IUTH) in Okada, Edo state, the governor has been on his toes towards curbing the spread and flattening the curve in the state. The governor while being proactive as well  as considerate has devised various means and methods to cushion the effects  of the pandemic in the state by a number of reasonable ways -imposing a compulsory stay at home order, partially shutting down the state economy by shutting down schools, religious and other crowd gathering, markets and marketing and commercial activities moved  to primary schools open fields. Imposing compulsory use of nose/face mask in public and the recently additional measure of 10 day dusk to dawn (7pm-6am) curfew as the virus spread surges in the state.

According to headlines, the governor has already spent to the tune of 1billion Naira in the fight against the pandemic with the purchasing of additional new Covid19 test kits and has created up to 5 major geographical isolation centres in the state with the Stella Obasenjo Hospital and UBTH front lining the combat against the dreaded pandemic.

The governor via channels TV broadcast has announced Mass house to house testing for the covid19 to commence Wednesday April 22^nd 2020 in Edo state. The governor said the plan is to have  at least 1000 citizens daily tested daily in all the 18 local Government areas of the state in the next few days or maybe weeks as he aims to use data to flatten the curve .

Edo state as at April 21^st 2020 recorded a total number 15 confirmed cases with over 300 contact cases of the corona virus.

Commendably, the health workers at the front line are also contributing their quota and working seriously with the state government towards sufficiently combating the monster virus. So far, progress has been recorded as some of the infected covid19 patients have been discharged as they have tested negative twice to the virus.