The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has hinted on the possibility of the Federal Government banning inter-state travel to curb the new wave of COVID-19 being experienced in the country. According to Mohammed, the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 would be meeting on Monday, and may recommended inter-state travel as part of measures to control the spread of the virus. The minister revealed this while speaking at an event organized by the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja. THE WHISTLER reported earlier that former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, had called on the federal government to ban all flights coming or going to the British capital of London to avoid the importation of a new and stubborn strain of the virus into the country. Mohammed, however, noted at the event that the Federal Government was worried about the possibility of the mutated strain of COVID-19 being imported into the country from London, but may not immediately resort to international travel ban due
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