The Anap Foundation COVID-19 Think Tank has commended the COVID-19 Health Protection Regulations (2021) aimed at ensuring Nigerians adhere to public health advice in controlling the spread of COVID-19 in the country.
This is contained in a joint statement yesterday by the foundation’s Chairman Atedo Peterside and Vice-Chairman Abubakar Siddique Mohammed.
According to the statement, the regulation is detailed and if adhered to, will go a long way at protecting Nigerians from the second wave and the more infectious strains of the virus.
“In furtherance of our objectives to promote behavioural change around managing the pandemic and ensuring effective stakeholder response to COVID-19, the Anap Think Tank announces our collaboration with the media to launch a ‘Name and Shame’ Initiative.
“The name and shame initiative will highlight the non-compliance of newsmakers by not covering events or denying media coverage of events where participants do not comply with the Health Protection Regulations; and spotlighting defaulters in the media”.
It said so far, the Arise TV, BusinessDay Newspaper, Channels TV, Classic FM, Daily Trust, Premium Times, TheCable, The Nation, ThisDay and Vanguard had agreed to join this initiative.
The statement urged all other media houses to consider signing up to join the initiative.
