More states on Sunday announced complete lockdown as practical way of stemming the rising spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
The states that are to join others that had either shut their borders or declared state of emergency are Ekiti, Osun, Abia and Yobe.
From tomorrow, there will be no movements in Ekiti State for 14 days and in Osun, where all borders were shut last night, a complete restriction of movements within the state commences on Tuesday.
Abia took similar decisions with Osun but said a month’s complete shutdown of the state would begin, Wednesday.
Yobe state however said its border closure will commence tomorrow night pending the curtailment of the virus.
No fewer than 14 states had last week either closed their borders and restricted intra-state transportation in the efforts to bring the COVID-19 spread under control.
The states are: Ogun, Rivers, Kogi, Delta, Enugu, Katsina, Nasarawa, Niger, Kano, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Kebbi and Benue, with Ekiti and Osun state government also announcing plans to shut its borders too.