President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has signed the COVID-19 Regulations 2020, which declared COVID-19 a dangerous infectious disease.

This, according to the special adviser to the President on Media, FEMI ADESINA is in line with exercising of the powers conferred on President BUHARI by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act and all other powers enabling him in that behalf.

The presidential spokesman noted that the regulations, effective March 30, 2020, also gave legal backing to the various measures outlined in the President’s National Broadcast on March 29, 2020, such as Restriction/Cessation of Movement in Lagos, FCT and Ogun State and others toward containing the spread of the pandemic in the country.