NCDC and NNPC-IPPG reinforce #TakeResponsibility theme with multi-lingual campaign

The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is pulling out all the stops in her campaign to galvanize Nigerians in the battle to stop the spread, and ultimately win the war against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak, which was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has since become a global pandemic, spreading to almost every country in the world, including Nigeria.

With the campaign funded by the NNPC-IPPG team, an association of Indigenous Oil and Gas Producing Companies, and buoyed by its mandate to tackle the challenge of public health epidemics through prevention, detection and control, NCDC has taken the #TakeResponsibility campaign against the virus a notch higher with the newly launched multi-language mass media campaign.

The campaign, disseminated pan-Nigeria in Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin and English languages across Print, Radio and Social Media platforms, is premised on the key NCDC safety precautions to stop the spread of the pandemic.

The precautions include washing of hands frequently with soap under running water for 20 seconds; or using alcohol-based sanitizer where water is not readily available; coughing or sneezing into tissue and disposing same properly or coughing or sneezing into the elbow.

Other guidelines involve the practice of social distancing, such as avoiding large crowds and keeping physical contact to no less than 2 meters; cleaning all surfaces frequently with disinfectants and getting information about the virus only from official sources.

Also, critical is the advice that if a traveler returns from a trip abroad, such an individual should self-isolate for 14 days and if he/she develops symptoms, the individual should call NCDC’s toll free number: 080097000010, for immediate assistance.