Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, has told the Department of Public Information (DPI) that the emergency orders to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will be extended. He, however, explained that the new measures will cater to the epidemiological situation in specific areas.
“We are going to extend the orders. The specific measures that are going to be in place have been discussed with various people… There is no one size fits all for the whole country because different areas of the country would require different measures to be put in place and that’s how we will be addressing it,” the Minister told DPI during an interview this weekend.
The current round of emergency orders in place – from August 16 to 31 – allowed for a 9pm to 5am curfew in other parts of the country except regions Seven and Nine. These two regions were under curfew from 6pm to 6am while movement in and out of the areas required authorization from the Ministry of Health.
DPI said that an analysis conducted by the Ministry of Health determined that it was necessary to extend the orders based on the epidemiological situation in each region.
