COVID-19: NYSC Orientation Camp To Be Shut If… Minister

Any National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp that violates the COVID-19 protocol will be shut down going forward.

According to Sunday Dare, minister of youth and sports, at the media briefing of the presidential task force (PTF) on COVID-19, held in Abuja on Monday, the lives and health of the corps members are a priority to the government.

He added  that the affected persons will be reposted to nearby states to continue the orientation exercise.

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“Going forward, any state that refuses to cooperate fully — 100 percent — in the aspect of COVID-19 protocol adherence, full testing using the RDTs, and also data management by the approved staff of the NCDC, the health ministry, and also the trained doctors, that state will have its orientation camp shut down and the corpers would be sent to adjoining states,” the minister said.

The minister, therefore, called for strict adherence to the protocol, and urged NYSC officials to cooperate with approved authorities on curtailing the spread of COVID-19 at orientation camps.