The federal government, Tuesday, denied media reports that it has “introduced or re-introduced’’ new restrictions on COVID-19.
Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed made the rebuttal at a meeting with online publishers in Lagos.
Mr Mohammed said there were no new restrictions, adding that the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 only reiterated existing regulations to control spread of the disease.
The Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 had on Monday announced the enforcement of a curfew across the country in a move it said was to forestall a possible new wave of the pandemic.
“The nationwide curfew will be imposed tonight at midnight and it will run through till 4:00 a.m.,” the committee stated.
But the minister, a member of the steering committee, said the committee’s national incident manager Mukhtar Mohammed was quoted out of context during the briefing of the committee on Monday in Abuja.
He said the only thing that was newly introduced was that anyone, including Nigerians travelling from Brazil, Turkey or India, must go through compulsory quarantine.