Adamawa State Government has quarantined about 100 returnees from Lagos, Ogun, and other states.
Most of the affected returnees are workers of a Chinese owned company in Ogun State, while others are factory workers in Lagos.
Fifty-nine of the returnees have been isolated at the Numan facility, while 40 of them have been quarantined at the Kpacham facility in Demsa Local Government Area of the state.
The directive of Governor Ahmadu Fintiri is to isolate them for 14 days, before releasing them to their communities.
The Chairman of the state’s COVID-19 Containment Committee, who doubles as Secretary to the State Government, Bashir Ahmad, led a team of health experts and security operatives to monitor the interstate travel ban compliance at the border town of Lafiya Lamurde and Numan Local Government Areas.
The Chairman expressed worry that state governments in the region are not collaborating with the travel ban directive.
He, therefore, appealed to Gombe, Bauchi, and Taraba state governments to enforce strict measures, to ensure compliance on the interstate travel ban, to contain the spread of the virus in the region.
Adamawa State is yet to record any case of COVID-19 disease.
However, with the influx of interstate travellers, the state is making efforts to be on high alert, to stay free of the dreaded virus.
