The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),Chikwe Ihekweazu has warned Nigerians of risking another lockdown if they continue to violate some health guidelines.

Ihekweazu made this known while speaking at the presidential task force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja on Monday, stating that new cases of the virus may arise if people continued to flout the health directives in some parts of the country where the lockdown was eased.

He said that the Federal government might be forced to impose another lockdown if there are more cases of coronavirus.

He said “How do we want to manage the risk of explosion and transmission?

”Today, we might forgive a little bit because it is the first day.

“We will definitely have more cases because of what happened today, no doubt about that.


“But how can we learn from the mistakes of today into tomorrow, next tomorrow so by Friday hopefully we have normalised some of these things.

“Yes, we knew today would be a problem because for the first time, people were let out of their homes but now they are out and we have seen the sunlight again, the challenge for us as a society is how do we now organise ourselves to mitigate these risks and limit transmission?

“We might have a few extra infections today and tomorrow but what we don’t want is an explosion of new infections.

“If the cases of the virus infection increases, there will be almost no choice left for the leadership of the country than to ask all of us to go back into our homes.

“So for the benefit of coming out to reopen parts of the economy, there is a price to pay which is to reorganise ourselves to do this safely.”

Recall that the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and FCT ended on Monday as residents were allowed to resume work.

However, DAILY POST gathered that some commercial buses, popularly known as ‘Danfo’ flouted the Lagos State transportation guidelines. Pictures and videos of Nigerians overcrowding in public places also emerged online.

No point! Nigerians might as well go the way of Sweden from this point on.

FG DOESN'T PAY UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND HAS ALLOWED ALMAJIRIS TO LIQUIDATE THE SOUTH, SO WHY WON'T BE CLOSEDOWN FOR EVER?

Why the lockdown again? We know that the positive cases in Nigeria are more 500,000 , if aggressive testing is done.
If convid-19 is very serious as is it in America and Europe, Nigeria would have recorded up to 1000 death.
Thank God, Nigeria convid-19 is high fever.
I trust chloroquine and vitamin C for the rescue

I really pity contract workers, lifting the lockdown for a month won't do for them and then again humans are being humans and flouting the lockdown

This man is now a compromised puppet of the WHO , he is now playing a Vector role fro the Satanist and he has been rewarded with a WHO appointment

FG should also hint on plans to test and provide reasonable palliatives to all.

There was never a lockdown in most parts.

What we had then was restriction of vehicular movements and closure of businesses. People still move about within communities

How do you say there's a lockdown when people still need to go to the next street to fetch water?

I am based in Lagos, there was never a lockdown in Lagos

Lockdown is lifted