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First Bank salutes medical professionals tackling COVID-19

&NewLine;<p><strong><em>&nbsp&semi;Felix Onajite of the Witness Newspaper&comma; in&NewLine;this piece&comma; made available to OpenLife&comma; reports the endless appreciations and&NewLine;salutations by First Bank to medical professionals who are continuously&NewLine;battling COVID-19<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;witnessngr&period;com&sol;77020-2&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">First Bank of&NewLine;Nigeria Limited<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;has saluted medical professionals tackling the&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;witnessngr&period;com&sol;77186-2&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">COVID-19 pandemic<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;in&NewLine;Nigeria and the world&comma;&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;witnessngr&period;com&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">THE&NewLine;WITNESS<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;witnessngr&period;com&sol;covid-19-our-branches-are-open-nationwide-firstbank&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">The Bank in series of tweets&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a>on its Twitter page on&NewLine;Friday&comma; acknowledged the role medical experts are playing to fight the virus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Some of the messages read&colon;&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No capes&comma; just heroes&period; To all the health professionals at the frontline of&NewLine;efforts to tackle COVID-19&comma; we say thank you&period; Your timeless efforts are much&NewLine;appreciated&period; The world called and they responded&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No cape&comma; just lab-coats&period;&NewLine;No superhuman capability&comma; just dedication&comma; strength&comma; and compassion&period; As we play&NewLine;our parts of staying at home&comma; we thank our medical professionals for being our&NewLine;&OpenCurlyQuote;Avengers’&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The world called and they&NewLine;responded&period; We salute our frontline warriors&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;First-Bank-723x1024&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2836"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;witnessngr&period;com&sol;76727-2&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">FirstBank has been&NewLine;in the forefront&nbsp&semi;<&sol;a>of supporting the drive to flatten the curve with&NewLine;promoting public enlightenment being among its many measures to check the&NewLine;rising spread of Coronavirus since the outbreak of the disease in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Recall&comma; the lender&comma; as&NewLine;part of a robust effort to combat the deadly virus&comma; recently announced a&NewLine;donation of N1 billion to the federal government of Nigeria for the expansion&NewLine;of health facilities&comma; purchase of relief materials&comma; critical care facilities&comma;&NewLine;protective gears to contain the spread of the virus and treating individuals&NewLine;diagnosed with the disease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The donation is in&NewLine;addition to the Bank’s drive to move&nbsp&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;witnessngr&period;com&sol;76727-2&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">one million children&NewLine;to e-learning&comma;<&sol;a>&nbsp&semi;together with an early partner – Roducate – as&NewLine;recommended by the Lagos State Ministry of Education&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;First-Bank-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2837"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to the Chief&NewLine;Executive Officer of FirstBank&comma; Dr&period; Adesola Adeduntan&comma; the e-learning&NewLine;initiative is a complementary effort in education to support students and&NewLine;minimise the disruption to their education resulting from closure of schools&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Nigeria Centre for&NewLine;Disease Control &lpar;NCDC&rpar; on Friday night confirmed 20 new cases of Coronavirus&NewLine;&lpar;COVID-19&rpar; in the country&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Eleven cases were&NewLine;confirmed in Lagos&comma; three cases confirmed in the FCT&comma; 3 in Edo&comma; two in Osun and&NewLine;one in Ondo<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;04&sol;First-Bank-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-2838"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Two new deaths have been&NewLine;recorded in Lagos and Edo States&comma; with 25 cases discharged&period; This brings the&NewLine;total number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 210&comma;” the centre said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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