The Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Friday, ordered that worship centres in the state must now spend a maximum of two hours for their services.
The governor gave the order at the official handing over ceremony of a 300 bed capacity isolation center built by his administration to the Alex Ekwueme Federal Teaching Hospital.
Umahi who also announced the ban of large gatherings said the move was neccessary to curb the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The Ebonyi State Governor directed the State Deputy Governor, Kelechi Igwe and the State COVID-19 team to ensure massive sensitisation and public enlightenment campaign to get the people to embrace the COVID-19 protocols.
“We must go back to observe all the protocols of COVID-19 enunciated by the Presidential Taskforce. I have directed that Church Services should not last more than 2 hours. I have also directed that we should step up our testing before the end of January”.
“We must have to accomplish the target of the Presidential Taskforce by testing at least 450 persons per Local Government. I have suspended large gathering of people in Ebonyi State. We have returned to the wearing of facemasks in all public places and in our homes.”
“During this Christmas, I am appealing that we curtail our movements. The initial night of praise will no longer hold in the state, the usual end of year party will not hold rather we are not aggregated so that we have smaller gathering that we can control”, he said
