The governor said, “The first case wasreported on the 23rd of March 2020, it took 60 days to reachthe first 100 cases. But it took 10 days to move from 100 to over 200 cases. It tells you that the community spread is alarming.”

The governor said, the state has screened over 260,000 people, from whom over 1,671 samples werecollected for testing, with 240 cases confirmed in the state.According to him, “Our strategy is simple: screen, test, and treat. We have a target to screen a minimum of 500,000 people and test 5,000 persons. As agovernment, we need to take some drastic actions because if wecontinue at this level, we will not be able to cope.“We are beginning to see the numbers of death increase in the last five tosix days. We recently lost three personsbringing the total number of deaths in the state to 10 persons. The number should not betaken for granted. We need to take the social distancing guideline seriously to curtail the spread of the COVID-19.”