The Chief Judge of Ogun, Justice Mosunmola Dipeolu has urged Nigerians to adhere strictly to the COVID-19 preventive measures and not get carried away by the Christmas and New Year festivities.

She recently revealed this at the Seventh Christmas Carol Service of the state judiciary, held on Wednesday at the Judicial Complex, Kobape Road, Abeokuta.

According to her, this is key because observing all the preventive measures on the COVID-19 pandemic would further help in flattening the curve of the virus.

She added that it is important for citizens to comply with the precautionary measures to avoid contracting the virus, because the second wave of the pandemic is real.

His words, “We are about to inaugurate the Staff Development Centre, a computer centre where we will be training our staff members on the rudiments of their duties.

“Speedy dispensation of justice is one of the seven-point agenda of this administration and we are working towards making the judiciary to digitise.”

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Coronaviruses are a group of related viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses cause respiratory tract infections that can be mild, such as some cases of the common cold (among other possible causes, predominantly rhinoviruses), and others that can be lethal, such as SARS, MERS, and COVID-19. Symptoms in other species vary: in chickens, they cause an upper respiratory tract disease, while in cows and pigs they cause diarrhea. There are yet to be vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent or treat human coronavirus infections.

Coronaviruses constitute the subfamily Orthocoronavirinae, in the family Coronaviridae, order Nidovirales, and realm Riboviria. They are enveloped viruses with a positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome and a nucleocapsid of helical symmetry. The genome size of coronaviruses ranges from approximately 27 to 34 kilobases, the largest among known RNA viruses. The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”, which refers to the characteristic appearance reminiscent of a crown or a solar corona around the virions (virus particles) when viewed under two-dimensional transmission electron microscopy, due to the surface covering in club-shaped protein spikes.

Human coronaviruses were first discovered in the late 1960s. The earliest ones discovered were an infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two in human patients with the common cold (later named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43). Other members of this family have since been identified, including SARS-CoV in 2003, HCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS-CoV in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 (formerly known as 2019-nCoV) in 2019. Most of these have involved serious respiratory tract infections.