Restrictions on the 24 million residents of Nigeria's two biggest cities will start being phased out May 4. 'No country can afford the full impact of a sustained lockdown while awaiting the development of vaccines,' the country's president said.
People collect emergency rations of food and essential supplies from the Red Cross Society of Nigeria in Lagos State earlier this week.People collect emergency rations of food and essential supplies from the Red Cross Society of Nigeria in Lagos State earlier this week.
"No country can afford the full impact of a sustained lockdown while awaiting the development of vaccines," he said. Although the number of new cases in Nigeria appears to have peaked last week, with 208 reported on April 22, limited testing and poor health care and communications infrastructure in the country, as in much of Africa, have left experts and the government with little in the way of meaningful data on which to base policy.
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