“…the return to a normal living will commence in a matter of weeks”.
Following the continuous surge in numbers of COVID-19 deaths across the globe, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, (RCCG), on Sunday, said the world has begun the journey back to normalcy.
The coronavirus disease which put the entire world on its knee which has infected over 2.3 million people globally and killed over 150,000, many nations around the world have effected lockdown and restrictions on movement on citizens to curb the spread of the virus, from which over half a million persons have recovered.
Despite the lockdown, which was also enforced in Nigeria, many continue to die daily as scientists across the globe battle against time to find a vaccine for the virus, which first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019.
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Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Nigeria as at Saturday top 500 while about 19 deaths have so far been recorded despite government lockdown order to nip spread of the deadly disease.
Pastor Adeboye, a former lecturer, who superintends over one of the largest churches, with millions of members across the globe, in a televised broadcast on Sunday, said: “the return to a normal living will commence in a matter of weeks”.
Scientists have argued that it would take months for a vaccine to be developed for coronavirus and many nations may have to curtail social gatherings and employ stringent social measures to ensure the virus does not do more damage.
Since the lockdown in Nigeria, many church leaders, including Pastor Adeboye, whose church headquarters is in Ogun, one of the states under a federal government-initiated lockdown, have held online services with their members since public gatherings have equally been banned.
Ogun, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory have been under a complete lockdown for over three weeks.
Adeboye had, in the wake of the emergence of the virus in Nigeria, revealed how God told him the world would experience a ‘compulsory holiday’, Premium Times reported.
‘‘I have good news for you. The return journey to normalcy has begun,’’ Pastor Adeboye told members on Sunday. ‘’Very soon your pastors will return to their duty posts. I have perhaps one more Sunday to spend with you (televised broadcast), then everything will return to normal.’
