EBOLA: LAWMAKERS REFUSE TO SHAKE HANDS WITH MINISTER FOR HEALTH IN ABUJA

The Ebola virus scare is real, everybody is afraid. Members of the National Assembly are not exempted from the panic over the spread of Ebola in the country, as many of them expressed their fears for the dreaded virus by refusing handshakes with the minister of health, Onyebuchi Chukwu when he appeared before them to give account of what federal government is doing to checkmate the deadly Ebola in Nigeria.

 

The minister was left with no choice but to greet the lawmakers like cultists, using sign language.

                                                     …sanitizers to the rescue!

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Ebola: Catholic Church Stops Handshake, Announces New Service Procedure

The Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja on Sunday announced new procedures for worshippers at Masses to check likely spread of the Ebola virus.



The procedures which include the administration of the Holy Communion on the palm of the faithful as against placing it on the tongue of the recipient, was announced by Rev. Fr. Moses Jimbili, at SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nyanya.

Jimbili told parishioners at the church that the measure was a directive by the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, as check on the spread of Ebola disease.

 Other change in the church’s practice was the stoppage of hand shake by worshippers done during consecration of the Holy Communion as sign of peace.

NAN also reports that Onaiyekan’s directive is contained in a statement issued by the Director of Social Communications in the archdiocese, Rev. Fr. Patrick Alumunku.

“Due to the prevailing national situation on the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), I am directing that the following pastoral guidelines should be observed throughout our Archdiocese till further notice.