Drive Coronavirus Prevention Message, Nsirim Tells Teachers, Traders

In continuation of the aggressive sensitisation and awareness creation to prevent infection by COVID-19, the Rivers State Commissioner for Information and Communications, Pastor Paulinus Nsirim, has urged teachers in the state to take advantage of their position in the society to disseminate the message to their staff, teachers, pupils and students.
Giving the charge, yesterday, at a one-day sensitisation programme for principals, head teachers, and proprietors of schools in the state, Nsirim said the nature of their job has made them trusted agents by their pupils and students, oftentimes to the disregard for what their parents and guardians tell them.
According to the commissioner, the teachers are important in the campaign because, as “Head mistresses, head masters, principals, and proprietors of schools, on a daily basis you have interactions with our young people, and whether you like it or not, children always like to listen to you. In some cases you know that as teachers, sometimes there are things that happen at home that children will even quarrel with their parents to say ‘no that’s not what our teacher said.”
He, therefore, told them that “what we want to create in Rivers State is a prevention mechanism that will ensure that Rivers State is safe, that Coronavirus will not exist in Rivers State. We believe strongly that all of you gathered here this morning will be ambassadors of this message, and that you’ll take it to your various schools, and from there it will get to your various homes”.
Explaining the intricacies of the Coronavirus, the Commissioner for Health, Prof Princewill Chike, noted that though the Coronavirus has been in existence for over 60 years, but that it had been in animals.