COVID-19: Another Total Lockdown Unlikely, Says FG via thisdaylive
With 681 new cases, incidences rise to14,554; 4,494 discharged, 387 deathsOlawale Ajimotokan, Kingsley Nwezeh, Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja and Martins Ifijeh in Lagos
Mustapha, at the regular press briefing by the task force in Abuja, said another lockdown might not be necessary while the federal government in terms of strategic implementation of its policy would not be looking towards that direction as the country’ “cannot be moving forward and begin to move backward again.”
”To go back to a total lockdown must be taken into context of what we do desire to achieve after we locked down for about four or five weeks and see how we fare. So, the issue of review might not have that in contemplation because you can’t move forward and begin to move backward again. He also expressed concern over the projection by the Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, Dr. Anthony Fauci, projecting 200,000 Americans to die from COVID-19 by September this year.
”I don’t see the excitement that will be achieved if we allow sporting activities or the football league to resume in an empty stadium. A lot of European countries where this is a big business are thinking of opening in a deliberate manner and in a slow pace manner. “And many countries are saying when they finally resume, it would be teams playing in empty stadia.
“However, today you may have seen the release of more testing numbers; it should have been released yesterday; they were delayed. So, we really need to emphasise these numbers. Right now, we are working at 10-20 capacity utilisation of our laboratories. So, we have the capacity to test a lot more. We can test about 10,000 samples per day and probably more if we are pushed hard. So, the laboratories are there; samples are not coming as sufficiently as we want.
Ehanire added that 45 per cent of the 9,000 primary healthcare centres have so far been rehabilitated across the country.On the update on the scientific investigation on the Madagascar herb, Ehanire said there were no findings yet.He added that he would soon demand an interim report from the agencies on what they have done with the herbal drug.
The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, during the briefing in Abuja, said contrary to report, the federal government did not say flights would resume by June 21. “We gave them a window of three weeks to prepare and I believe they are still preparing. We did not ask them for updates how things are going but we expect them to get back to us.
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