The Federal Governmentthrough the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has disbursed N1billioneach to 32 states in the country amid the Coronavirus pandemic.
PTF Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu who made the announcement on MondaySeptember 21 said the disbursement is to drive up the states’ COVIDresponses.
The Coordinator said;
“We have released money to the state governments recently, to 32 stategovernments. Each state government was given a billion naira.
“This is for the purpose of driving their COVID responses and we are askingthem to prioritise testing in addition to surveillance activities linked to
COVID-19.”