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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has deployed about 100 of its vehicles in six states to support the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on combating coronavirus.

The commission disclosed this in a statement issued by Mr Festus Okoye, National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, in Abuja on Friday.

Okoye said that the pick-up van to be deployed to Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Kano, Rivers states and FCT, would be used for contact tracing, surveillance/laboratory and infection prevention/control in six states.

He said that since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the commission has been in touch with the PTF on areas it could assist to tackle the…



Source: Nigerian Tribune