Our response to Covid-19 will define our legacy

Mr. Speaker, let me at the onset appreciate you for graciously honouring my invitation, at short notice, to attend this Extra-Ordinary session of Parliament. This session is intended to afford you the opportunity to debate, provide direction and legislate instruments that would enable us as a nation to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic commonly known as Coronavirus.

Let me also take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to this House for your active involvement in sensitising your constituents on the risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic which has caused death and misery on an unprecedented scale globally.