Ghana has lifted the lockdown, but Public gatherings are still banned. Borders and schools remain closed. It has now done 68,591 Coronavirus tests with 1,042 cases. Drones are used to transport samples. It is also producing its own face masks, gloves, scrubs, gowns, head gears.

Despite Recording Over 1000 Cases, Ghana has an estimated population of 31,072,940 people. So far, Coronavirus has claimed 9 lives.

The President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo announced that they'll be lifting the lockdown considering its severe impact on the poor & vulnerable & due to their increased capabilities to contain the spread of COVID-19. Alebit Public gatherings are still prohibited.

A Contrast to what's obtainable here in Nigeria

With the increase in insecurity and a lockdown that's not been observed strictly in street due to increased cases of robbery and clashes. People are also found having small gatherings in street without using face masks and perhaps washing their hands with soap and water or the use of alcohol based hand sanitizers have since been forgotten since the beginning of lock down.

Nigeria hasn't tested more than 10,000 people and we are close to 21 days at home. Ghana has tested over 68,000 people within almost same period. South Africa has tested over 100,000. yet the numbers in Nigeria keep increasing everyday with a constant announcement that it's because of increased testing - how long will it take before we can do 100,000 test - does that mean we will stay back home till July? What will be the fate of the poor that have now stopped sleeping in order to keep vigil at night, burning tires and having different machetes and dangerous equipment just to have some sense of safety or the employed that are currently being sacked enmasse in a country were the government can't provide jobs, or the imminent non payment of salaries as a result.


VERDICT: We can't shut the country so that we will suddenly wake up to governance and start searching for testing kits and effective tracing and tracking of contacts which with the rate so far will take us till July to do an appreciable level of testing, the Lockdown should be lifted in Nigeria and a strict civic distancing enforced in our offices, Motor packs. Social gatherings may still be restricted and everyone should go out with Masks also hand washing and use of sanitizers will be made necessary in places were two or three people gather.

We can't afford to kill an economy that's already faced with crashed oil prices and extend more hardships to the poor - who are being killed at the least provocation because of the Lockdown by security operatives. The lockdown hasn't been effective by any means - even supposed government that set the rules broke it with the recent gathering to bury the chief of staff and yet no one was punished - in New Zealand the health minister was demoted, but here we were told that they can't flog the attendants, but the security operatives knows how to kill the poor for going out to buy food. Even better Economy like Sweden haven't announced lockdown.

Everything n this country is a joke. Just look at this pics

Actually, our curve he's not just flattened but if is on a downward turn.

There are a lot more existential threat to the average Nigerian than the Corona Virus. Most of the global prediction models have been way of by a factor of more than 100. It was their fear mongering predictions that led national governments to start implementing shutdowns. Since then, the real data have shown that those models are nonsense. Even the US is dumping the WHO and Imperial College models.
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As much as we're trying to save lives, it doesn't have to be at the cost of people's livelihood. With oil prices hovering below $20/bbl, the public sector economy is going to face dire straits. There's really no point subjecting the private sector economy to an even greater collapse.

Wait until you hear the amount they have spent in the tested cases.

Trust me, it'll triple Ghana's 50k cases.

May God help us.

Nigeria was never prepared for Coronavirus.
even the presidency thought Nigerians are immune against covid19.
they started taking it serious when Abba kyari and his likes got it.
there was no preparation. we are just depending on donated health equipment.

my brother I hope everybody knows the economy is based on Crude oil, right? Now that oil market has crashed. Will the government be able to pay salary.

If people can't pay their children's school fees/rent/service their loan/Food and so on. Would not the whole thing turns into a raging dumpster fire....

ayampissed:
Wait until you hear the amount they have spent in the tested cases.

Trust me, it'll triple Ghana's 50k cases.

May God help us.

We're waiting. Just like a comparison was done on almost the same KM of railway track and contract awarded sometime ago and ours was by far higher.

This thread is highly underrated. Front page please!

Lostz:
Nigeria was never prepared for Coronavirus.

even the presidency thought Nigerians are immune against covid19.

they started taking it serious when Abba kyari and his likes got it.

there was no preparation. we are just depending on donated health equipment.

The problem is that after the first case was reported what have the government done - 8,000 test.

Medley:


The problem is that after the first case was reported what have the government done - 8,000 test.

you can't just wake up and start testing. they have looted money meant for the health sector.


the few medical equipment we are using were donated.

Isn't it amazing that there's a possibility of another 14 days of Lock down and at this rate of testing, we may still be doing less than 18,000 test