{"id":13357,"date":"2020-05-14T09:13:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13357"},"modified":"2020-05-14T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T09:13:52","slug":"covid-19-not-a-death-sentence-prof-iwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13357","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 not a death sentence \u2014Prof Iwu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Maurice Iwu said on Wednesday COVID-19<\/a> was not a death sentence and urged Nigerians to take precautionary measures issued by public health authorities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iwu, who is also the Chairman of Imo State Task Force on COVID-19, stated this when members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) COVID-19 Team led by one Dr. Victor Dike paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Owerri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that 90 percent of virus diseases that affected people were not medical but hygiene induced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: \u201cViral infection is a health condition and not a medical condition and so there is need to separate the two.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ex-INEC chief commended the NMA for the solidarity visit, adding that the success recorded so far in the fight against the pandemic was as a result of their input and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted that the task force had three major approaches to containing the spread of the virus in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These, according to him, include communication, education, and protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iwu added the medical personnel had a duty to educate members of the public on what the virus was all about and how to conduct their lives in order not to contract it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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