President Muhammadu Buhari will address Nigerians on Monday evening.
The national coordinator of the presidential task force on COVID-19, Aliyu Sani made this known to newsmen on Sunday.
This followed the end of the first phase of the gradual easing of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
The Nigerian economy has been shut down for nearly six weeks as airports were closed, schools shut and lockdown was imposed on Kano.
The President had announced that the phased strategy is designed to reduce the pains of socio-economic disruptions.
He, however, said this will be “strictly followed with aggressive reinforcement of testing and contact tracing measures while allowing the restoration of some economic and business activities in certain sectors.”
Aliyu said President Muhammadu Buhari will decide on whether or not the country should go ahead with the second phase of the easing of the lockdown.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the Presidential Task Force in COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has warned those flouting the guidelines on the relaxed lockdown, that the virus is going nowhere at least for the next two months.
This is even as he said the next phase of the taskforce responsibility had moved to the community level for them to take ownership, reduce transmission if the country was to flatten the curve.
He spoke after he led members of the team to submit report to President Buhari at the State House, Abuja.
Mustapha who restated that COVID-19 is a marathon race and not 100 meters dashed, added that no vaccine was in the horizon, adding that even the ones being developed would take about 18 months to two years before they would be confirm for human use.
