The economic impact of the Coronavirus outbreak in Nigeria and the reasons to adopt alternative radical approaches to fight and control the disease in order to lessened the economic impacts on the country's resources.

Facts and figures.

1. European countries and America with far more advanced economies and medical facilities are experiencing hundreds and thousands of deaths daily, but Nigeria and other south saharan Africa countries hardly record 5 Covid-19 related deaths per day. Why?

2. In America and UK, blacks are disproportionately dying from covid-19 related complications than their white counterparts. The rate of black deaths is far more than white deaths in percentage terms. Why?

3.Nigeria and other south saharan Africa countries suffer less from the flu, cold and other respiratory related virus and bacteria compared to Europe and America. Why?

4. Is Nigeria practicing a more advanced form of prevention measures..social distancing and wearing of face mask that is yet to be discovered in Europe and America, if not, why is Nigeria not recording more deaths compared to Europe and America?

Answers:

1. The reason the Coronavirus is and will not have adverse medical/health effects on Nigeria and other south saharan Africa countries lies in our climate environment. Our climate environment acts as a form of natural sanitizer to most respiratory viruses and bacteria because if it's high humidity. Most respiratory viruses cannot survive long in the air in a humid climate like ours.

2. Our climatic environment helps us to produce enough Vitamin D which helps to boost our immune system to fight against most respiratory diseases. In the colder climates of Europe and America, the melanin in the black skin prevents the black from producing enough Vitamin D at the same levels in Africa which results in less immune protection against respiratory diseases. This is the reason black deaths in Europe and America are disproportionately higher than their white counterparts.

3. In summary, the south saharan Africa climatic environment acts as a natural sanitizer and helps to boost the immune system against respiratory diseases including covid-19.

4. The blacks in western countries often result to home remedies to cushion the effects of the flu and colds during the winter season.

5. The black ethnic minority also suffer more from dry skin due to the less humidity of the European and America climates.

Economic Impacts and alternative approach.

Nigeria economy and IGR is currently taking a huge hit due to reductions in economy activities occasioned by the lockdown procedure in place. The economic impacts of covid-19 to Nigeria economy is disproportionate and outweighs the health impacts.

Ghana must have connected the dot between their climatic environment to the less impacts of covid-19 so far and have now lifted restrictions on movements and reopened it's economy for business.

Nigeria could also adopt this measures by lifting the ban on the lockdown with advice to all it's citizens to be wearing face masks for now while we continue to monitor the disease.

How long can Nigeria continue to lockdown it's economy without the country disintegrating.

Nigeria should be looking for ways to reopen it's economy while we wait for an effective vaccine and drugs to manage the disease because there in unlikely to be a cure for it in a very long time to come.

The world still haven't been able to completely eradicate malaria, poliovirus, chickenpox, HIV, flu, common cold, etc.

On this Coronavirus scourge, one size cannot fits all, we have to start thinking out of the box.