Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has announced the relaxation of the lockdown order by six hours each on Mondays and Thursdays as a means to ease the total lockdown in the state.
The governor made the revelation at a press conference organised by the Kano State Government Task Force on COVID-19, at the government house on Saturday.
Ganduje said the government has relaxed the lockdown each day from 10 am to 4 pm on only Mondays and Thursdays. According to him, all the major markets will be closed except Yankaba and Yanlemo markets.
He also added that only supermarkets will be allowed to operate within the six-hour curfew, with the customers to ensure that they follow the COVID-19 protocols before they are allowed to access the places.
“We have provided face masks, to be distributed to the people. I directed chairmen of the local government to also provide the face masks for their people. Afterwards, we will make it compulsory for everybody to wear it,” he said.
“The more we are getting the test, the more people who contracted the virus would be exposed and the more we stamp out the disease in our state.
What we just want is for the public to adhere strictly to the protocols of the COVID-19 and abide by the lockdown order in order to break the chain of the transmission.”
The governor also appealed to the public that they do not abuse the lockdown.