The Kano State government says it has begun contact tracing of five Almajiri children, who tested positive for Coronavirus in Kaduna State.
Kaduna State government had on Monday, announced that five of the 195 Almajiri children evacuated from Kano tested positive to the virus.
Kano State Commissioner of Education, Muhammad Sanusi said the government will conduct contact tracing of Almajiri schools where the affected children were evacuated to their states of origin.
President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the lockdown in Abuja, the nation’s capital, as well as Lagos and Ogun States will remain in force till Monday, May 4.
The additional seven days will make it the fifth week since the president first declared a two-week lockdown in the three areas on March 29 to curb the spread of coronavirus.
On April 13, President Buhari had extended the lockdown by another two weeks following increasing cases of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a nationwide broadcast the President noted however that the lockdown measures in the FCT, Lagos and Ogun States will be eased gradually in phases effective from May 4.
He therefore announced new measures that will ensure the COVID-19 virus spread is checked, which are overnight curfew from 8pm to 6am; a ban on non-essential inter-state passenger travel until further notice; mandatory use of face masks or coverings in public in addition to maintaining physical distancing and personal hygiene among others.
The president also gave the federal government’s backing to Kano State government’s proclamation of lockdown, saying the state should be totally shut down for a period of two weeks.
64 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Nigeria.
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According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 34 of the cases were recorded in Lagos State, 15 in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), 11 in Borno State and two in Taraba and Gombe states respectively.
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No new death was reported but this latest figure brings the number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in Nigeria to 1,337.
The Lagos State Police Command says it has arrested and charged 620 persons, including 39 strippers and revellers at a nightclub, for violating the lockdown directive to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease in the state.
According to the Spokesman of the command, BALA ELKANA, some of the violators were arrested and jailed for organising a party; others were apprehended while travelling to other states.
He stated that seven inter-state commercial buses were impounded and 95 travellers and their drivers, were arrested and charged for defying the government’s lockdown directives.
BALA ELKANA added that 211 other violators were also apprehended in different parts of the state.
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