Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Chikwe Ihekweazu has said President Muhamadu Buhari will make very difficult decisions in the coming week regarding the lockdown.
He said this in Katsina during his visit to Governor Aminu Masari to examine the state’s preparedness for COVID-19.
Ihekweazu disclosed that the president was scheduled to join the governors’ forum teleconference meeting to discuss some of the decisions.
He expressed that;
There will be some very difficult decisions to be made around how to restart part of the economy, what to restart and what not to restart.
The truth is we cannot go back to pre-COVID, pre-lockdown, we’ll have to make some adjustments on how we engage, how we work, pray, relax and so some businesses.
Ihekweazu added that;
All these are difficult decisions that have to be made. Until we get vaccines, none of us is alone in this, every country is struggling with this, it is finding a balance between doing the needful and opening the economy so that people can survive, we cannot shut down everything.
In his remarks, Masari expressed concern for men from Katsina State, scattered all over Nigeria, especially Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja.
He noted that many of them were returning home and avoiding official entry points because of the vastness of the land.
Masari added that his government had involved traditional rulers so that returnees could be identified and quarantined for 14 days.
The governor said those returning through official borders were being recorded and data were taken to quarantine them too.
