President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but the government has still not said whether it will extend a two-week confinement order on three states that ends Monday.
Residents in Lagos, Ogun and the capital Abuja have been confined to their homes, only allowed to leave for shopping trips, since March 31 in a measure to halt virus infections.
On Saturday Buhari in a statement urged Nigerians to stay at home and to wash their hands to help save lives, but there was no indication whether the official confinement period would be extended past Monday.
“I don’t have any information on that,” presidential spokesman Garba Shehu told AFP on Sunday.
“The doctors and scientists are the ones who will advise. It is not a political decision, it is a medical and scientific decision.”
Nigeria, with nearly 200 million inhabitants, is the most populous…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
