- FG shut NYSC camps nationwide in March 2020 to curb the spread of the coronavirus and reopened them in November of the same year
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has given conditions for admitting prospective corps members into camps nationwide as it plans to commence the 2020 Batch “B” Stream II Orientation Course on January 19 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency, via a twitter thread, said prospective corps members must possess a clearance certificate that certifies that they are not COVID-19 positive.
“It is imperative to restate that everyone coming into the NYSC camps must undergo COVID-19 test, Corps Members, and officials alike. Only those that test negative are admitted into the camps.
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“The same measures adopted for the November and December 2020 Orientation Courses are going to be applied to the 2020 Batch “B” Stream II Orientation Course commencing, Tuesday, 19th January 2021, with stricter enforcement of all the safety protocols.
“The NYSC and NCDC are working closely for a successful exercise as recorded previously. Accordingly, members of the general public are advised to disregard the unbalanced and cooked-up reportage designed to deliberately create fear and panic in the minds of unsuspecting Nigerians,” the tweets partly read.
It is imperative to restate that everyone coming into the NYSC camps must undergo COVID-19 test, Corps Members and officials alike. Only those that test negative are admitted into the camps.
— NYSC NDHQ (@officialnyscng) January 16, 2021
The Federal Government had on March 18, 2020, ordered the immediate closure of the NYSC orientation camps nationwide due to COVID-19 outbreak.
However, the camps were reopened in November, 10 months after it was shut as part of efforts to curb the spread of the virus.
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