The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has charged market authorities to ensure temperature checks before buyers and sellers transact businesses at the various markets scattered all over the country.Channels Television’s Sunrise DailyHe said market leaders must take responsibility and ensure traders and buyers comply with COVID-19 protocols including the use of face masks, social distancing and washing of hands at market places.
“We would want to see a market where before you enter the market, there is somebody stationed there to measure your body temperature. And if your temperature is above 38 degrees, you will be turned back and advised to seek assistance or linked directly to where you will have a test done. If your temperature is negative, then, they will also ensure that you have a face mask which is actually the first step – if you don’t have a face mask, you won’t be allowed to come near the gate of the market.
“We also want to see the law enforcement agencies working side by side with the necessary stakeholders –the association of the market regulators to ensure that these protocols are complied with. Not only the markets but all public places, the supermarkets, parks, event centres and so on and so forth.”The disregard for Covid protocols at the market places have been concerning in the last eleven months since Nigeria recorded its index case of the virus in February 2020.
Health experts have also attributed the spread of the virus in the country to the non-compliance of the preventive measures by market users. Many have also opined that the decentralised or ungated nature of most markets in the country has made the enforcement of temperature checks, social distancing and other Covid protocols seemingly a mirage.
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