With less than a week to the hosting of the 20th edition of the National Sports Festival (NSF) in Benin City, the Edo State capital, the state government has said it is deploying 150 medical personnel to offer essential medical services and other measures to ward off the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak during the games.
Chairman, Local Organising Committee (LOC), Rt. Hon. Comrade Phillip Shaibu, said this during a press conference at the Secretariat for the 2020 NSF in Government House, Benin City.
Noting that the state government has procured five scanners and Infrared thermometers to be stationed at the stadiums and the Benin Airport to check for high body temperature of athletes and spectators during the games, he stressed that the state government has taken necessary measures to ward off the Covid-19 outbreak at the NSF 2020. (Text courtesy Nation)
