Nigeria: COVID - 19 - Govt Extends Inter-State Lockdown, Curfew By 2 Weeks

19 May 2020

The Federal Government has announced an extension of the current partial lock-down of the country, saying the time was not ripe for it to relax its containment protocols against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Also, government announced another two-week extension of the dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed in the wake of the ease of four-week lock-down of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Lagos and Ogun states, and inter-state lock-down of the 36 states of the federation and the FCT.

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