Nigeria not to lockdown 11 LGA with high cases of COVID-19

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The Federal Government of Nigeria has identified 11 local government areas in the country where COVID-19 is pervasive. These 11 "high burden" COVID-19 local governments are in 5 states, 7 of them are in Lagos, Kano and Bayelsa states. 

The Federal Government has stated that there will be no precision lockdown of the local government areas, this was made known by the National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, on Monday during their press briefing. According to him the Federal Government are working with the affected local governments through community engagement to reduce the COVID-19 infection rate. He added that due to the location of the local governments it makes it difficult to lockdown the affected area and precision lockdown of the local governments will be   

Dr. Sani Aliyu stated, “We are also trying to improve testing, especially in Lagos where seven of the 11 local governments are.

“For instance, if we were to lockdown those local government areas in Lagos, we will have to lockdown the entire state. States like Bayelsa, where in Yenagoa, which is the local government with the high-burden, if we lock Yenagoa down, virtually all the roads across the state have to go through this local government.

“Technically it will be very difficult. We know if the interventions that we proposed are being implemented and people are cooperating, you do not actually need to lock people down at all.” 


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