Yusuf Bello| The federal government on Monday said the refusal of Nigerians to comply with the lockdown directive is responsible for rising cases of coronavirus infections in the country.
The minister of state for health, Olurunibe Mamora who made the assertio at the briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19, blamed the high increase in COVID-19 cases to failure to comply with the order.
Mamora said, “The rising number of cases is of concern to all but there is evidence of increasing in country community transmission which to a large extent is as a result of non-compliance with lockdown orders and other non-medical interventions and other presumptive source of exposure to infections.”
“The unauthorized treatment of highly contagious COVID-19 patients in private homes or unaccredited health facilities with the risk of infecting their families, other patients, visitors and health workers. These factors necessitated the active case finding strategy with the house to house and cluster testing which has contributed to increased case detection.”
It will be recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari in an effort to curb the spread of the pandemic, ordered a two-week lockdown on March 30 but extended it by two weeks on April 13.
The President is expected to make a prouncement on the lockdown in a nationwide broadcast at 8pm Monday night.
Nigeria currently has over 1,000 coronavirus cases.
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