Nigeria had 318 reported cases of coronavirus on Sunday.
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus, but the government has still not said whether it will extend a two-week confinement order on three states that ends Monday.
On Saturday Buhari in a statement urged Nigerians to stay at home and to wash their hands to help save lives, but there was no indication whether the official confinement period would be extended past Monday.“The doctors and scientists are the ones who will advise. It is not a political decision, it is a medical and scientific decision.”
Confinement measures are extremely difficult for the majority of the population who depend on the informal economy to survive. Nigeria had 318 reported cases of coronavirus on Sunday, with around 5,000 tests carried out, and has recorded 10 deaths.
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