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Volume 28, Supplement—December 2022
SUPPLEMENT ISSUE
Workforce

Effect of Nigeria Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 Pandemic, Nigeria

Omotayo BoluComments to Author , Boss Mustapha, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Mukthar Muhammad, Assad Hassan, Ahmad Abdulwahab, Adeyelu A. Asekun, Reward Nsirim, Emeka Okechukwu, Ibrahim Attah, Mahesh Swaminathan, Stacie Greby, Adebimpe Adebiyi, Morenike Alex-Okoh, Tochi Okwor, Elsie Ilori, Nwando Mba, Joe Mutah, James Akujobi, Ndirpaya Battah, Wilfred Haggai, Geoffrey Okatubo, Awele Okigbo, Evelyn Castle, Ibrahim Abubakar, Charles Akataobi, Olusegun Adekunle, and Sani H. Aliyu
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (O. Bolu, A.A. Asekun, M. Swaminathan, S. Greby); Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria (B. Mustapha, C. Ihekweazu, T. Okwor, E. Ilori, N. Mba, O. Adekunle); Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Abuja (B. Mustapha, O. Adekunle); Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Abuja (M. Muhammad, A. Hassan, A. Abdulwahab, I. Attah); US Agency for International Development, Abuja (R. Nsirim, E. Okechukwu); Federal Ministry of Health, Abuja (A. Adebiyi, M. Alex-Okoh, G. Okatubo); Ministry of Information and Culture, Abuja (J. Mutah); Nigeria National Emergency Management Agency, Abuja (J. Akujobi); Federal Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment, Abuja (N. Battah); Federal Ministry of Aviation, Abuja (W. Haggai); Credo Advisory, Abuja (A. Okigbo); eHealth Africa, Freetown, Sierra Leone (E. Castle); Public Health England, London, UK (I. Abubakar); African Field Epidemiology Network Nigeria, Abuja (C. Akataobi); Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK (S.H. Aliyu)

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Table 4

COVID-19 economic support, Nigeria, March–December 2020

Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP) Trader and market Moni loans Rapid expansion of the National Social Register
Sensitized over 5 million small scale traders listed in the GEEP database about COVID-19 pandemic. Granted 3 months moratorium on payments owed to 2.2 million existing GEEP beneficiaries and completed 99% of the loan disbursement target Disbursed loans to 43,117 beneficiaries in 11 states (Lagos, Ogun, Plateau, Bauchi, Yobe, Zamfara, Katsina, Edo, Cross River, Enugu, and Imo) and the Federal Capital Territory Updated the National Social Register to include previously unidentified vulnerable citizens, now including 3.6 million households in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory

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