Social Distancing: Enforcement team on COVID-19 seals Church in Abia

The Abia State Enforcement Team of Inter-ministerial Committee on COVID-19, Wednesday, sealed Chapel of Answers International Church, located at Jubilee Road in Aba, for allegedly violating the State Government’s guidelines on social distancing.

The Enforcement Team of Inter-ministerial Committee on COVID-19 led by the Secretary to the State Government(SSG), Barrister Chris Ezem, faulted the church for having more than 50 worshippers per stream, without face masks by members while also running weekly activities.

This was coming as the Abia State Government recently declared that Aba had become the epicentre of coronavirus positive cases recorded so far in the state.

The Acting Governor of Abia, Sir Ude Oko Chukwu during a press briefing, warned that residents of the commercial city of Aba could be more vulnerable to the scourge based on available statistics.

Oko Chukwu also announced that the two molecular laboratory equipment procured by the state would be arriving this weekend from the United States of America.

He assured that the State Government would deploy its rapid response team to all the Local Government Areas to ensure that the target of testing no fewer than 10 percent of the population was achieved.