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Breaking: FG extends lockdown in Kano by two weeks

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4 years ago

2020/05/18

The Federal Government, on Monday, said the President, Muhammadu Buhari, has extended the lockdown in Kano State by two weeks.

The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, disclosed this at the daily briefing of the task force in Abuja.

The President had on April 27, announced a “phased and gradual easing” of the lockdown in the Federal Capital Territory, Lagos and Ogun states, while declaring a nationwide curfew with effect from May 4.

He also ordered a ban on all inter-state movements and a total lockdown in Kano State.

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation said, “Mr President has approved the following: (i) ?The measures, exemptions, advisories, and scope of entities allowed to reopen under phase one of the eased locked down, shall be maintained across the federation for another two weeks effective from 12 00 midnight today (18th May, 2020 to 1st June, 2020);

“(ii) ?intensifying efforts to ‘tell (communicate), trace (identify) and treat (manage)’ cases;

“(iii) ?elevating the level of community ownership of non-pharmaceutical interventions;

“(iv)?Maintain the existing lockdown order in Kano for an additional two weeks;

“(v)?Imposition of precision lockdown in states, or in metropolitan/high-burden LGAs, that are reporting a rapidly increasing number of cases, when the need arises. This would be complemented with the provision of palliatives and continued re-evaluation of the impact of the interventions; and

“(vi)?Aggressive scale-up of efforts to ensure that communities are informed, engaged, and participating in the response with enhanced public awareness in high-risk states.”

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC reported record 338 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the highest, single day number of infections to be recorded by the country on Sunday.

In an update on its website, NCDC said the new cases were confirmed in 18 States and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

The Centre also announced that six new deaths were recorded to the virus on Sunday, thus bringing the total number of lives lost to the virus in the country to 182 while a total of 1594 patients of COVID-I9 have been successfully treated and discharged across Nigeria till date.

Lagos still leads in the number of the new infections with 177 cases, followed by Kano with 64 cases and FCT with 21 cases.

Other States and the number of cases are: Rivers (16), Plateau (14), Oyo (11), Katsina (9), Jigawa (4), Kaduna (4), Abia (3), Bauchi (3), Borno (3),Gombe (2), Akwa Ibom (2), Delta (2), Ondo (1), Kebbi (1), Sokoto (1).

The new cases bring the total number of the virus in Nigeria since the country recorded its index case to 5959