The federal government warned on Friday that the only way to stop the spread of the deadly virus is for the people to play the part the government expects of them.Twenty additional confirmed cases were also recorded according to data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control .
Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed, who dropped hint of a possible extension of the lockdown, said the stay at home order was not being strictly observed. The President said the it would last two weeks in the first instance to “identify, trace and isolate all individuals that have come into contact with confirmed cases.”During the NAN interview, the Information Minister also said that government would not allow families of coronavirus victims claim their remains for burial.
“Nigerians should not forget that this is not the type of corpses that can be claimed for burial because it must be handled by the Ministry of Health.” “We intend to use the opportunity of this coronavirus to improve our health care system at the federal, states and local government levels. When his attention was drawn to calls by some Non-Governmental Organisation for the probe of the task force over the disbursement of monies gathered from the donations, the minister said: “We have not received even one kobo; people want us probed for how we spent monies we have not even seen.
Chairman Medical Advisory Committee of Lagos University Teaching Hospital Prof Lanre Adeyemo, confirmed the death of the COVID-19 patient at the hospital. “We then called our expert here in LUTH who is also part of the IDH Yaba to come and take sample so that we could confirm. Dabiri-Erewa said in a statement in Abuja that this was sequel to requests by Nigerians stranded abroad in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.Besides, they will be “compulsorily quarantined when they return,” she said.
Mohammed, speaking during an interview session with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, said such corpses are delicate hence the Federal Government has assumed responsibility for their handling and burial. The minister, who is a member of the Presidential Task Force on the Control of Coronavirus, said the Federal Government had advised state governors to provide at least 300-bed space facilities in their respective states in case of an upsurge in the coronavirus pandemic.
'Threatens'? Which kin journalism bi did sef? TheNationGetProblems
Please, how many people are staying at home? People are moving up and down everywhere in Lagos, the center of the pandemic in Nigeria. We are not serious.
Threatened ? Editors ?
It’s now looking like we serving punishment?..... follow me I will follow back
Using the word threat is not necessary. The stay at home has to be extended if the covid-19 virus keeps spreading following the update from the NCDC. If people are allowed to go back to normal life despite the present state of the virus in Nigeria, I fear our case will get worse.
Stay at home without food.....This is Nigeria
Who are they giving the treat ?
Like seriously?
What provision do they have for people? It's high time something is done
I don't seem to notice if there's any lockdown as such coz people are still moving about. You'll see places flooded. Bikes and cabs still working. Stay at home people. It's for our own good
FG should pls wait why dere thunder is processing aferembezzlingourmoney.
Una dey sick for upstair
When they no craze,with all this rubbish that there is no light all day
Them no born una well👿
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