March 25, 2020 (El-fashir) The government of North Darfur has requested UNAMID peace-keeping mission to take appropriate and immediate measures to prevent the entry of the new Coronavirus into the country, as well as the need to grant its national staff members open leave.

The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Head of the Higher Coordination Committee to Combat Coronavirus  in the State, Suleiman Adam Idris,said  that his committee had decided to address a letter to  UNAMID mission, to inform it of the need to grant the Sudanese staff working for mission  open leave  to prevent the entry of the Coronavirus in the country.

He pointed out that the committee also decided to close a gold mines  and restaurants until further notice, besides private clinicsas well as  emptying markets from street vendors