Lagos conducts social media poll on whether to lock down or not

Lockdown Threat

Lagos State Government threatened to revert to full lockdown if there is no improvement in adherence to the public health guidelines. The government noted that in the first week of the easing of the lockdown, there had been a repetitive and flagrant disregard for the earlier announced health guidelines, a move that could frustrate the government’s efforts to contain the virus.

“As a government elected to uphold the security of its citizens, which includes health security, we will not hesitate to review the terms of #EasingTheLockdown if we do not see an improvement in the adherence to our public health guidelines over the next couple of days,”Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said in a tweet.

Covid-19 cases continue to rise

The spread of novel Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) in Nigeria has continued to rise rapidly as the latest statistics provided by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control revealed Nigeria now has 4,971 confirmed cases. On the 13th of May 2020, 184 new confirmed cases and 6 deaths were recorded in Nigeria. Lagos as usual lead the rate of new cases and now has a total of 2041, followed by Kano (707), Abuja at 370, Katsina (224), Bauchi (206), Borno (188), Jigawa (141),  Ogun (127), Gombe (119), Kaduna (116), Sokoto (112), Edo (89), Zamfara and Oyo (73).

Kwara State has recorded 53 cases, Osun (42), Rivers (33), Kebbi (31), Nasarawa (28), Delta (22), Adamawa (21), Yobe and Plateau (20), Ondo (18), Taraba and Akwa Ibom (17),  Ekiti (15), Enugu (12), Niger (10), Ebonyi (9), Bayelsa (6), Benue (4), Imo (3), Abia and Anambra have recorded 2 cases each.

Over the last 75 days since the first case of the virus hit Lagos on February 28th Lagos state now has on average 27 cases per day. The cases have since spiked in the last 3 weeks hitting over 50 a day.