The Kogi state government has relaxed the social distancing order imposed on the state residents as move to curb the spread of covid-19.
In a statement signed by the Commissioner for Information and Communication, Kingsley Fanwo, the new development allows for mosques and churches across the state to congregate.
Bello, in the statement issued in Lokoja on Thursday, said that the lifting of the ban was to enable religious bodies to resume their normal worship and services.
The state government urged all religious leaders to put in place preventive and precautionary measures in their various worship centres in order to contain the outbreak and spread of coronavirus in the state.
Specifically, the governor directed that hand sanitisers must be provided for worshippers at the entrances of all churches and mosques.
“Sitting arrangements in mosques and churches should be done to ensure social distancing.
“We also urge churches and mosques to make their services as brief as possible in order not to keep a large crowd of worshipers within an enclosed confinement,” the governor said.
Bello then enjoined the religious leaders to continue to pray for the end of the pandemic so that the world could return to normal activities.
