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March 18, 2020
The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has said orientation camp exercise was suspended as a precautionary measure to avoid cases of coronavirus, COVID-19.
Ibrahim said no case of the virus has been recordedas at now.
Corps members were asked to leave the orientationcamp Wednesday morning by the management of NYSC.
NYSC had, last Thursday 12th March, performed theswearing-in ceremony for the 2020 Batch A, Stream 1 corps members, who cameinto the orientation camps on Tuesday 10 and were expected to leave on March30th.
Brigadier General Ibrahim said during the Ebolavirus, the corps members were also in camp but their activities were suspendedto prevent the spread of the virus.
The NYSC boss said although the scheme had put inplace precautionary measures earlier, there was still need to suspend the campactivities to ensure that no case is recorded.