Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has urged Lagosians to avoid panic shopping as a result of the reported spread of coronavirus disease in Lagos State.
Reports claim that many Lagosians, in panic, have been shopping for bulk items such as chloroquine, sanitizers, masks, food items amongst many others.
However, Sanwo-Olu, who made this announcement on Friday while giving an update on coronavirus in Lagos, stated that only essential materials should be purchased since the state has only placed a ban on social gatherings across the city but not on shutdown.
Sanwo-Olu said that “It is not out of place for people not to have essential things at home, there is no need for us to start panic buying.”
“We have not locked down the city, we have not said people cannot go to work, we have not said people cannot move from one place to the other.
“We have not said that people cannot communicate, what we have said is that people should observe social distancing as much as possible and should desist from the assemblage of people that is more than a certain number that has been prescribed.”
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The government of Lagos state, in agreement with religious leaders, have placed an immediate ban on all religious gatherings with worshippers over 50 people.
This was disclosed in a press statement read to newsmen by the Commissioner for Home Affairs, Prince Anofiu Elegushi, shortly after a meeting with religious leaders in the state at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa on Wednesday.
The religious bodies who were present at the meeting include the Christian Association of Nigeria and Muslim leaders.