Chairman of the PTF, Boss Mustapha

The Federal Government has released new guidelines for the new phase of containment of COVID-19 from May 4 to May 17, 2020.

Part the guidelines which were signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, stated that anyone without a face mask in public will be prosecuted.

This was announced in a series of tweets posted via the task force’s Twitter handle on Friday.

The five-page document was signed by the PTF Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.

President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered the lockdown in Lagos and Ogun States, as well as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as part of measures to curb the spread of the disease.

He, however, announced in his Monday broadcast that there would be a gradual easing of the lockdown in the three cities from May 4.

Read the guidelines below: