The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has said the state will ease the lockdown imposed to curb coronavirus and will reopen its economy by June 1.
Mr Abiodun disclosed this in an address on Friday, the last day of the one-week extension earlier declared.
This newspaper reported how the state extended the lockdown by a week, maintaining that residents can work between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. According to him, the window allows for conduct of essential business activities “and has been acclaimed to have positive psychological benefits.”
Meanwhile, he explained that the state has experienced the highest increase in the number of cases in the last one week but also discharged many patients. “While we have discharged a total of 36 cases, we recorded 49 new cases in the last one week , bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 183.”“As a testament to the fact that we are set to increase our testing capacity from 450 to 600 per day, the
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