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By Olawale Ajimotokan
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 (PTF) has identified 22 Local Government Areas in 13 states of the federation as the hotspots of the new spike in COVID-19 epidemic in the last six weeks.
The PTF National Incident Manager, Dr. Mukhtar Muhammad, gave the affected local government areas yesterday at the weekly briefing by the PTF.
The council area with high case load are: Nkanu West, Enugu; Abuja Municipal Area Council, FCT; Gwagwalada, FCT; Gombe, Gombe; Chikun, Kaduna; Kaduna North, Kaduna; Kaduna South, Kaduna; Nassarawa, Kano; Katsina, Katsina; Ilorin South, Kwara; Ilorin West, Kwara; Eti-Osa, Lagos; Ikeja, Lagos; Kosofe, Lagos; Lagos Mainland, Lagos; Keffi, Nasarawa; Lafia, Nasarawa; Ibadan North, Oyo; Jos North, Plateau; Jos South, Plateau; Port-Harcourt, Rivers and Wamako, Sokoto.
He gave the assurance in Abuja on Monday at the briefing of the PTF.
He said: “As you’re aware, the whole world is pursuing the same commodity and we have to secure our source while at the same time prepare our infrastructure and capacity for administration.
Mustapha recalled that President Buhari authorized the extension of all measures in place, including the limitation of the categories of workers allowed to go to the office to those above Grade Level 12.
He said the PTF received reports that MDAs were compelling their workers in the categories barred from the office to report for work.