Buhari Gives Coronavirus Task Force Six Months To Deliver

By Chuks Ekpeneru

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha as Chairman of a 12 -member Presidential Task Force for the Control of the Coronavirus.

The panel is to deliver on its assignment in six months.

The statement by Buhari ’s media aide, Mr Garba Shehu, announced the appointment on Monday in Abuja.

It said , “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) .

“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 similar to that adopted for the HIV epidemic in the last two decades . ”

The committee has a mandate of six months to deliver on the assignment .

The National Coordinator of the committee is Dr Sani Aliyu.

Other members are Minister of Health, Prof Osagie Ehanire ; Minister of Interior , Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola; Minister of Aviation, Mr Hadi Sirika; Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Services , Sadiya Umar- Farouk ; Minister of Education , Mr Adamu Adamu; Minister of Environment , Mr Mohammed Mahmoud ; Director -General , Department of State Services , Mr Yusuf Bichi ; Director -General , Nigeria Centre for Disease Control; Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu ; and World Health Organisation Country Representative.

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