“The Conversation” series is calling for the adoption of a revised containment strategy, which is a 7 day total lockdown throughout the country and the introduction of a compulsory use of face mask in all public places as a strategy to help flatten the rising curve of the pandemic.
While the revised option will give the people a mental reduction in the number of days they will have to stay at home thereby enlisting their needed cooperation with the order, it will also afford the government a shorter time frame to enforce strict compliance.
Given the dense population in most of our communities in Nigeria, the use of face mask which has enjoyed global acceptance as a proven method to prevent the contracting and spread of COVID-19, will give more bite to our collective resolve to ultimately defeat the pandemic.
