As concerns increase around ways to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Akwa Ibom State, the need for village heads and traditional rulers at the community level to use town criers in sensitizing rural dwellers on the scourge has been reiterated.

The Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Doctor Martin Akpan, who stated this in a chat with Planet News, noted that all-inclusive approaches should be adopted to fight the pandemic and not just the use of modern techniques of information dissemination.

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Doctor Akpan who described the COVID 19 disease as the most pernicious infection at the moment, emphasized the need for sensitization on preventive measures most especially hand-washing, awareness through town criers, and the use of sanitizers.

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Meanwhile, our correspondent Anthony Esin reports that Doctor Akpan assured that the primary healthcare coordinators in the 31 local government areas of the state have been mandated to enlighten residents in rural communities on what to do in order to contain the spread of the pandemic.

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