The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, (NYSC) Brigadier Shuaibu Ibrahim has said the scheme has put in enough and adequate resources towards the safe re-opening of all orientation camps across the nation.

The DG, represented by the Director Press and Public Relation while speaking in Abuja at a press conference on Wednesday noted that COVID-19 measures are already in place by the NYSC management to ensure safe camp re-opening in consonance with partnership with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

According to the Ibrahim, in order to aid COVID-19 testing, TY Danjuma Foundation donated 60,000 test kits and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) donated 72,000 RDT kits.

Shuaibu added that vaccinated or not, everyone undergoes the compulsory COVID-19 test before entering the NYSC Orientation Camps.

Highlighting other preventing measures to curb the spread of COVID-19 during the exercise, Shuaibu said, ” there is presence of NCDC surveillance team and State Health Officials in NYSC Camps Nationwide, RDT are administered on all camp officials and prospective corps members (PCMs) before entrance into the camps and only PCMs and officials that tests negative are allowed into the camps.

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“There will be testing of all visitors and non-camp officials entering the camp premises while number of participants allowed into the camps is now reduced nationwide so that there will be enough room for physical and social distancing”.

Similarly, PCMs resume in batches over a period of 5 days to over crowd during registration, PCMs and Camp Officials do not come to camp with results but are freely tested at the camp entrance.

He added while other measures such as sanitizers, enough hand washing location, fumigation and decontamination of all camps is done before the commencement of the orientation exercise, all camps are safe for re-opening for the 2021 Batch ‘B’ Stream II Orientation Course.