The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, has said that
the compliance level of Nigerians will determine whether a fresh lockdown will
be imposed, amid the second wave of the pandemic.
PTF National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu, stated this while
featuring on TVC on Tuesday.
Aliyu insisted that no decision has been made on a fresh
lockdown.
“The behaviour of the public when it comes to these rules
matters. We have countries abroad that have very strict non-pharmaceutical
intervention measures and everybody follows it.
“The flights are coming in, schools are open, churches are
open, and they don’t have COVID-19 problems because everybody observes the
rules.
“We definitely don’t want a lockdown and because we don’t
want to lock down, we need to make sure we do everything we can to prevent
ourselves from reaching that state where the government will have to take
action,” he said.
The Federal Government ordered a lockdown in March 2020 in
the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States for over five
weeks during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It led to job losses as airlines, hotels, banks, among
others cut their workforce due to the crushing economic effect of the lockdown.
Last week, the federal government admitted it would have no
choice than to impose a fresh lockdown in the country, if the number of
COVID-19 infections continues to spike.
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