COVID-19: Reflection on Nigeria’s Health and Education Sector and the way forward. By: Oluwatumininu Adetoro
On 27th of February marked a day of reckoning Nigeria as the first case of the novel corona virus disease was confirmed by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control(NCDC), this was the case of an Italian citizen who works in Nigeria and returned from Milan, Italy to Lagos, Nigeria on the 25th of February 2020. And ever since then, Nigeria has since experienced an exponential surge in the cases of corona virus. The virus which started from Wuhan in China is said to take within 5-14 days before the symptoms begin to surface thereby making transmission unknowingly easy. Therefore, in order to curtail the widespread of the virus as the case of USA, ITALY and other countries, the Nigerian government had so far rolled out measures such as total lockdown, closure of borders, disbursement of palliatives amongst others in order to mitigate the effect of the disease. With Lagos state being the commercial nerve center of the country and one of the most populous state, there has been no ...