The government expressed worry that with more than 127,000 confirmed cases, Nigerians are still not obeying the safety protocols.
The National Incident Manager of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Mukhtar Muhammad, while on a National TV on Friday, said; “Certainly even if we are going to have a lockdown, it is not going to be a total lockdown.
“A couple of weeks back, we analyzed the data and we identified the hotspot local government areas.”
“Mostly, the areas affected are the urban local governments in Lagos, Abuja, Kaduna, Plateau.
“The urban areas are the most affected and that is why we have these super-spreaders and that is where we are going to target. We have analyzed that and we are advising the states based on the data that these are the focused areas where these transmissions are more than the others.” Muhammad said.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),on Friday, reported 864 new coronavirus infections in the country while the death toll stands at 1,547.
