The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has said that eleven local government areas that have high cases of COVID-19 and cut across Lagos, Kano and Bayelsa cannot be locked down.
Dr Sani Aliyu, the National Coordinator of Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said that the geographic location of the affected local government areas would make locking them down difficult as an entire State may be grounded.
“We have eleven high-burden local government areas we’ve identified, we are doing a lot of works in these local government areas, especially as it relates to risk communication and community engagement activities.
“We are also trying to improve testing, particularly in Lagos where seven of the 11 local government areas. We are improving case management, discussing with the various states in terms of improving access to care, access to oxygen and so on.
“For instance, if we were to lockdown those local government areas in Lagos, we’ll have to lockdown the entire state. States like Bayelsa, where in Yenagoa, which is the local government with the high-burden, if we lockdown, virtually all roads across the state have to go through this local government,” Dr Sani said.
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