The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Chikwe Ihekweazu has warned Nigerians to reorganize themselves or face another lockdown.
Ihekweazu said the government may issue another lockdown if the COVID-19 cases in the country get out of hand.
President Muhammadu Buhari had locked down Lagos, Ogun and Abuja for 5 weeks to curtail the spread of the virus.
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The country was partially reopened on Sunday after the lockdown ended.
NAIJA CENTER had reported earlier in Lagos that social distancing was not adhered to by drivers.
The Cable also reports that Ogun, Abuja and Lagos were crowded, banks and many buses were in full operation.
Ihekweazu said while speaking on Monday that the federal government may force another lockdown if the COVID-19 cases explode.
He said “It is not the guidelines per se, it is the thinking behind it. How do we want to manage the risk of explosion and transmission? Today, we might forgive a little bite because it is the first day,” he said.
“We will have an infection 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 we do have that infection, 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.”
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