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backnbeta:
What of the contacts in Oyo? Who will trace them? Abi Makinde that just isolated himself a few days ago had no contacts?

COVID-19 is not an airborne virus, and thus just being in the same arena does not subject everyone to infection...
It is transmitted via droplets, so the person has to be a CLOSE contact (that is, in close proximity of less than 6feet).
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ybalogs:
Believing the figures being peddled around in the media as regards Nigeria's Covid19 patients is like believing FFK. Just stay home guys and be safe.

Given the number of tests thus far, those figures are ACCURATE...
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Fosterica:
They should set up more testing centers..esp in SS and SE

ckmayoca:
They don’t care about that side oh.

Test centers are NOT the problem...
You can be tested almost ANYWHERE (even your home) or any lab.

However, the COVID-19 test is a molecular test, and thus requires molecular labs to process your test sample...
There are already labs in the SS (Edo State) and SE (Ebonyi), and more labs are on the way in the next few weeks.

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JANK23H:
It's too late already. Those 6000 have already infected thousands. What the government should be preparing for is how to handle emergency cases that will be rolling-in in the coming days.

Build more emergency quarantine centers,get more people tested is the way to go now.

God save Nigeria.

The government is NOT looking for those 6000 people...
But sadly so much of the Nigerian press is so poor that they keep repeatedly translating “contact tracing” as searching for.

Contact tracing is NOT searching for these people who are known contacts of confirmed cases...
Rather it is keeping track of them while they’re in 14-day self-isolation, and checking with them to see if they develop symptoms.
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toluzealous:
Who are those poorest ooo.... Fools

Northerners...
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Bobotic:
Most High God in Heaven, Have Mercy on us.

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Why would you be associating your God with this paedophile?
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RIP...

Farki:
Germany did for a time that's because they generated and distribute so much that they had to pay some companies to use the power they produce.

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/germany-power-grid-pays-customers-christmas-sustainability-renewable-energy-a8141431.html?amp

Well, we are not there yet by a long shot...
We don’t generate enough and struggle to pay for the little generated.
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StagethemTVee:
That would be so insensitive of the goverment. When others are putting palliative measures, stopping interest rates and payments on loans, we are doing the opposite.

azpekuliar:
With the lockdown in place and a slow down of economic activity, great timing NERC/FG, great timing.

MansoryMX:
This government nor get conscience, no single conscience at all

FuckAllTheMODs:
Idi.ots in power...

Imagine lock down and there's no power supply but they want to increase the tariff.

valentineuwakwe:
and am asking myself; Do we hv leaders in this country? government insensitivity to its citizens

aojully:
very insensitive plan

blowjohn:
Reduce petrol price.
Then increase electricity tariffs.
So we go back to spending on more fuel for generators.

LordPsalm:
What a foolish nation. Other country are making this easier for their citizens while these fools are still making likfe unbearable for its citizens. No wonder corona virus just dey catch una one by one

angrykids:
Finding it hard to understand this people in the mist of the world epidemic,you are still increasing light tariff, where people never even see food chop,not that the light is even constant, black man is a problem to his fellow black man

Grace001:
Useless country ...fuel goes down power tariff increase. Nothing works in Nigeria

Heineken:
Is it that these guys don't think or what sef?

onyioyeezah:
When other countries are making these basic things free at this time

Farki:
Some people are just heartless, can't do their jobs yet they still get paid and demand even more. When you hear stories like this every day why won't you want to pack out of the country for good?

israelmao:
Is it not money that is available that they will collect?

Are you guys sure of the veracity of the OP story?

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onyioyeezah:
When other countries are making these basic things free at this time

No country is making electricity free...

Electricity in Nigeria is generated and distributed by PRIVATE companies...
They should try to promise no disconnections during the lockdown, but ultimately they need to get paid.
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Honbright:
https://www.voiceairmedia.com/2020/03/electricity-tariff-to-increase-on.html

Not according to this BusinessDay news report...
NERC is reportedly going to announce postponement of new tariffs till July 1 today.

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A LAGOS COVID-19 DISCHARGEE TELLS HER STORY...

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Ghostmode2two:
I think medication should be included as most of these aged people are suffering from internal disease or the other. The state government thinks it is only food these group of people need?

So you want government to just go collect Alabukun medicine and distribute to elders, regardless of whether they have prescriptions or not...smh
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nazablossom:
They should have informed people before sending out the message.

It’s been on the news for several days...
I even posted a picture here on NL of Gov Pontus Pilate inspecting the foods.
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sexiestharam:
You are putting lagosians on lock down yet you want them to queue to get food. The coronavirus spread you are trying to avoid would even be worse in those kind of queues. And they are the demographic that are most vulnerable to the disease. May God help our elderly.

Speaking of queues...
The Naysayers are queuing up. SMH.
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EKO ONI BAJE!
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phransix2:
We don't actually practise banking in Nigeria... Banks that will deliberately load N1K notes in their ATM and u can't withdrawal more than 10k at once just to make sure they collect that charge for using their ATM. Nobody is checkmating these guys...]

zicoraads:
Yeah... I remember back then, one could actually withdraw a whole lot of money. Now one can't withdraw more than 10k at once.

Perhaps, it's just your bank or account...
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Punctual:
I'm currently concerned about those who doesn't earn salary, who depend only on daily income. Please is there anything our government is doing to help this one's?

Yes...
And knowing Nigerians, many others who don't need the welfare will still try to get it.
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Coldie:
To me some cities have no business locking down. But u guess everyone wants to form busy

Abuja receives people from all over Nigeria and the world (until the airports were shut)...
It's thus a veritable petri dish for an imported viral pandemic such as Covid-19. Definitely needs a lockdown, isolation and distancing.
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Nicklaus619:
Well it was because I got salary alert and needed to send money to my family
I tried the code it wasn't working and so I went to the bank, ordinarily I wouldn't go to bank today

Understood, and no issues with that...
But you also have to anticipate that things might not function normally under the circumstances.

PS: Btw, there has been an increase in hacking activities since this pandemic...
No idea if that was why there were problems with your account identity, but that's something to watch out for.

Happy Lockdown.
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phransix2:
We don't actually practise banking in Nigeria... Banks that will deliberately load N1K notes in their ATM and u can't withdrawal more than 10k at once just to make sure they collect that charge for using their ATM. Nobody is checkmating these guys...

You seem think it's only in Nigeria that they charge ATM fees perhaps because you have not traveled abroad...
Meanwhile, in those other countries, the bank does not have to buy a generator and diesel to keep the ATM working.
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TallPck1:
I now understand what Trump meant whe he called Africa a shithole.

Brace up everyone. Winter is here.

God please have mercy on your children.

Meanwhile, Americans are falling like flies...
While Trump is struggles to pull his head out of his own sh*thole. SMH
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SharpJoe:
Lockdown means nothing without testing, isolating and treating infected ones.
We need mass testing for Covid-19 virus in Nigeria. Not Lockdown alone.

Are they doing lockdown alone?
Are they not getting new test kits and equipment, opening new labs and isolation centers, and treating cases?! SMH
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Nicklaus619:
Hello Nairalanders

This is my little experience with access bank today Garki market road and Area 3 Abuja branches.

Let me get this...

You went to a bank in the midst of a viral pandemic...
You and others were made to wait outside for the safety of staff who didn't sign up to be killed.

You had the sun beat down on you in Nigeria in March...
You and the rest of the ADULTs outside CHOSE not to observe social distancing.

At the end of it all...
You got your money and left. Okay, carry on...SMH

Apparently some folks think that these are normal times and it's normal operations for businesses and banks. SMH
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Dude’s Twitter handle is ‘ANONYMOUS’...
But soon as money is mentioned, he PUBLICLY sheds his anonymity.
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1926? So Bubu must have been one of the drafters...
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linearity:
Time to expand your understanding from your myopic cram-n-recite understanding of what enumerated rights are.

The word ‘enumerated’ simply means, mentioned or listed or or counted or defined....enumerated rights simply means rights specifically mentioned in the laws of a particular system given to people there.

It is myopic of you to think that, the constitution is the only source of enumerated rights. The constitution is just one source of such rights, congressional laws is another source, the UN also codifies a number of enumerated rights for everyone on earth e.g. human rights, prisoner of war rights, etc. Enumerated rights are rights derived from exiting laws and the constitution is not the only exiting law, unenumerated rights are rights implied from existing laws. I believe you know how to google, so you can look up those definitions yourself at least learn something.

If you read through my analogies, I didn’t confide my use of enumerated rights to just the constitution as a source, you are the one exposing your half baked knowledge, limiting listed or mentioned rights to only rights contained in the constitution, snap off that myopic mind set and look at the big picture and the meaning and usage of the word enumerate or unenumerate...it’s not a complicate English word.

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging...

Enumerated powers in the context of the US federal system and constitution means literally those powers SPECIFICALLY listed (or 'enumerated') in Article 1. Accordingly, the enumerated powers of the US government can ONLY be found in the constitution. PERIOD! The constitution is the grundnorm and EVERY other right, privilege or law is derived from the constitution. The fact that you're even implying that other laws or treaties share any sort of co-equivalency with the constitution is yet another embarrassing instance of half-knowledge being worse than none at all. SMH
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linearity:
Yes, I comment on Nigeria events, but am also here to learn and usually defer to people who have first hand knowledge.

Even if I watch Nigeria News all day or do research, all I will get is filtered knowledge made available through someone’s own interpretation.

In your case, you felt that you can get all the information about the US from the internet and through news outlet, which made you to conclude that their are covid-19 testing stations in the US that test everyone and anyone regardless of symptoms or the previous defined contact and travel criteria....I had since challenged you to provide a link authoritative source in US that states that and have not been able to do so.

I took time to read through one of the links you initially provided and look through some of the states criteria and did not see any backing your wrong assertions.

If you have such link, put it up or shut up and learn for once.

Either you are laboring under a comprehension deficit...
Or just one of those sad folks desperate to "win" internet discussions that you resort to telling porkies.

https://www.nairaland.com/5755946/covid-19-nigeria-confirms-five-new/2

NO country on earth has the capacity to test everyone...
Not just the testing equipment but the needed reagents are obviously in acute demand worldwide at this time.

Accordingly, each country necessarily PRIORITIZES who gets tested...
In Nigeria's case, those already showing symptoms go directly to the front of the line.

https://www.nairaland.com/5755946/covid-19-nigeria-confirms-five-new/3

Nope, you can get tested in the US w/out symptoms in those so-called "drive-through" test centers set up in some states...
Meanwhile, Nigeria tests only those with symptoms and trace contacts (which was why the "highly connected" at Aso Rock were tested).

Knowledge is not acquired by OSMOSIS merely by being an economic refugee in the US. SMDH
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ybn:
It will have been a smarter move if one was cited in Kano or Adamawa to serve these zones.

Apparently more are in the way...
Molecular labs are not that easy to set up.

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MrDebonair:
I have suggested to the health minister on why there should be testing and isolation centres in each states. As at today all testing centres are located majorly in South west and Abuja. What happens to South east and the Northern regions?

Off what benefit is it to saving lives when isolation centres have only beds with no ventilators. Average time frame for patients on ventilator to recovery is 9 days. What is the Federal Govt doing to acquire more ventilators?

Nigeria still has time to suppress the spread and prepare for cases but the time is being wasted.

Isolation Centers are NOT ICUs...

The overwhelming majority of confirmed COVID-19 cases thus far (about 80% or more) will only suffer mild symptoms or even be totally asymptomatic, and will not need intensive medical care nor ventilators. However, they must be isolated for at least 14 days (or until they test negative twice) so that they do not continue to infect others in the community. This is what these Isolation Centers are meant to address. Their existence increases the capacity of the public health authorities to isolate (quarantine) all confirmed cases while reserving ICU bed spaces and ventilators for the critical or extreme cases. Every bit helps. Kudos to GTBank and all others contributing to this effort.
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Nukilia:
The NCDC is like every typical government agency that thrive on mediocrity.

The NCDC is far from perfect...
But they have done a relatively SUPERB job thus far.

Obviously, they are overwhelmed with hundreds of calls suddenly pouring in...
And it’s not just expanding their call center capacity, but training so many new people so that they can dispense CORRECT info.

Nonetheless, they have been smart enough to DECENTRALIZE the emergency response...
By providing emergency response numbers in each of the 36 states (in addition to their main line and the national 112 number).
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lexy2014:
But d PPMC MD that died tested positive but was left to die in his home

Huh?

Not sure where you got that from...
But this Sahara Reporters’ story contains a family statement that he died in hospital.

http://saharareporters.com/2020/03/23/breaking-family-confirms-death-ex-ppmc-managing-director-achimugu-coronavirus
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