The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said on Monday that 66,000 eligible graduates mobilized to participate in the 2020 Batch B service year are to undergo COVID-19 test before admission into the orientation camps set to reopen on Tuesday, November 10, 2020.
Also mandated to undergo the test are course officials according to Corps.
The Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, stated this at a briefing held in Abuja in preparation for the 2020 Batch B Orientation Course in compliance with COVID-19 guidelines.
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The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, who also at the briefing, appealed to prospective corps members and officials to take personal responsibility, shun complacency, saying the second wave of the virus is not inevitable but can be prevented.
