COVID-19: Lagos state government to enforce wearing of face mask from next week

Lagos State Government has announced it will begin to enforce the use of face mask in public places as from next week.

The state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, made the announcement on Monday April 20 as he said that the state will punish patients who lie about their travel or health history.

Speaking at the 7th briefing on COVID-19 at the State House, Marina, Lagos this evening, the governor said one million of locally made face mask have been contracted to tailors and will be distributed during the week.

”There has also been questions about whether we are planning to introduce facemask as a policy. My answer to that is that we think that from next week, when we think we would have wrapped up production and distribution, we are going to be asking tha facemask should compulsorily be worn at public places. We have commissioned over a million production locally from various tailoring companies that we have and we intend to start distributing them in the course of the week.” he said

The governor also revealed that patients who lie about their travel history will be prosecuted. He also said the state government is already working on three to four names that are going to be punished and their names will also be published.

“We have taken a decision that we are actually going to be prosecuting people. We are going to make three, four people scapegoats and examples. I think it is only when the full arm of the law touches a few that they will know that this is a very serious matter.

We are already working on three, four names that we are going to make examples and we are going to publish such names.” he stated