The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has revealed it had commenced a review of the guidelines for lifting interstate travel ban.
While speaking at the daily press briefing of the PTF in Abuja, the task force’s National Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu said Nigerian roads would be opened when every bus terminus in the country put COVID-19 preventive measures in place.
In the same vein, the PTF Chairman, Boss Mustapha, said that the Federal Government would decide on its lockdown policies which include interstate movements ban next week.
Mustapha said the guidelines presented by the Minister of State for Transportation, Gbemisola Saraki, was being looked into, as such, the roads would be opened as soon as it is safe to open them.
He said, “At the moment, we still have restrictions on interstate travel. But we have been linking up with the Federal Ministry of Transportation through the Minister of State for Transportation.
“They have given us guidelines that they have developed: very detailed guidelines, and we have looked at them, summarised them and discussed at PTF last week.
“We have asked the Minister of State for Transportation to please engage with the road transport workers to make sure that the usual garages and parks that we have are ready in terms of guidelines that we have in place such as physical distancing, reducing the number of passengers per vehicle and provision of handwashing facilities etc.
“And I believe they are already working on this and hopefully, we should be able to open as soon as it is safe to do so.”
