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Investnow2017:
The approach recommended is Test, Test, Test

Here are the test performances of a few countries as at 8th April:

US - 2,200,000
Russia - 910,000
Germany - 1,310,000
France - 220,000
Spain - 355,000
Nigeria - 5,000
Italy - 807,000
Brazil - 54,000
Vietnam - 110,000
UK - 282,000
S.Korea - 477,000
Australia - 310,000
UAE - 590,000
Canada - 348,000
Israel - 117,000
Turkey - 247,000
Belgium - 84,000
Switzerland - 171,000

Now compare Nigeria 5,000 tests against a population of 200m and see the percentage in relation to other countries above.

Are we doing enough tests? Even Niger Republic has done close to 5,000 tests! You can see them up above Nigeria in the table.

The US for example has 100s of international airports and when some of their citizens from other countries started returning home because of the epidemic, they all entered into their country via different states, some unknowingly with the virus already. So the virus started multiplying in several places at the same time. Unfortunately for the US, they didnt start massive testing till 2 weeks after the virus had spread to every nook and cranny. When they got serious about testing, people eligible for testing via their proximity to infected persons were already in the millions. As of today, 22 million people in California alone are eligible to be tested because of the contact they had with an infected person. So even the 2 million tests done already is even poor because their contact tracing yields 10s of million who are supposed to be tested.

Nigeria on the other hand only has Lagos and Abuja as the gate of Nigeria. After the Italian man tested positive, flights from countries with over a hundred people infected were stopped from coming into the country. The virus still sneaked into the country and when the lockdown started, people who had come into contact with infected persons were about 5 thousand people. It definitely have increased now but it won't be so much because of the lockdown.

It's clear that the transmission rate is very low in Africa generally for some reason. The guy who had corona and went to the AMVCA didnt transmit the virus to anyone there. Everyone who attended the show was asked to self isolate for 2 weeks. This is one month plus. If it were the US or Europe, a lot of people would have gotten it from that place.

Concerncitizen:
Low budget show.
I feel for DSTV in a bid to smear Tacha they only made a fool of themselves.

Awon reality show
E go end in a month time

In a bid to smear Tacha...hahaha I'm sure multichoice have forgotten the disqualified one still exists. As I have....

Multichoice is all about $$$ and we all know one money making machine. Her name starts with M

Gbegirisoup:
Why does the accent bug you so much..

With the accent she won and your fave with her fake "soot" accent was Disqualified.

MERCY hasn't stopped Winning with that same accent..





It can pain eh!



The accent is now called the accent of Victory....

I have to meet Mercy to teach me that accent of hers. It's very clear tgat the accents for winners. Accent for record breakers.

Erediauwa:
Funke Akindele might have promised him two runs girls as a "Thank You For Coming" package and a talented Amala and Ewedu delicacy, and the family man who's supposed to be loosing his wife braids during this lockdown dashed out of the house with his neat Agbada carefully starched by his wife....

Now see where his great appetite for fresh pussy has landed him... A prominent man for that matter.

May our love for Owambe not take us to the wrong place.

Lol. The man actually owns the estate and lives their with his family. He was at the party with his wife. It was his wife who actually sold the property to Funke Akindele at a much lower price so she'll help promote the property at every given turn.

sonofthunder:
Do you have people around you dying mysteriously or who are down with more than 50% of the covid 19 corona virus symptoms?

No!

mployer:
2,900 deaths from 160,000 comfirmed cases.

2 deaths from 131 comfirmed cases.

The stats are almost the same.

Truth is people are dying everyday in Nigeria and we don't know what is killing them, because they are not comfirmed to be covid19 positive.

Covid19 doesn't just kill, people suffer from it's symptoms first. Who around you just died from Covid-like symptoms? Let's start from.there first.

mployer:
Nigeria has done less 1000 tests and recorded 131 cases.


US has done 1million tests and recorded 160, 000 cases.

Do the maths.

Do you honestly believe Nigeria has tens of thousands of Covid19 infected people running around? The US clearly has high transmission and infection rate and has a reason to have done over a million tests going through exactly same process as Nigera. The criteria for testing in the US are

1. If a person had travel history to affected areas and or
2. If a person had close physical contact to an already infected person.

Randoms with non of the above are not eligible for the tests. US with its over 300 million population had only managed to test less than 1% of its population. So I hope you understand that the high test rate in the US is simply because of its high transmission rate.

The first Covid19 case was just 5 days before the first Covid19 case in Nigeria. Yet at present the US has over a 160,000 case and over 3000 deaths whilst Nigeria is presently at 131 with just 2 death. Such huge disparity!

Some people believe that the cases reported are much lower than the actual cases at the moment and while that can be true, the cases around will still be in its hundreds. Anything short of that will have had people around us dropping like flies after having pneumonia-like symptoms and difficulty in breathing.

I believe that our transmission rate is really low for whatever reason. Maybe the heat, maybe our DNA? ( most definitely NOT because of government policies) It's been over one month since the first case was reported in Nigeria and if we've managed to control it to this very minimal rate, then we will surely beat the virus. It took same 1 month for US to go from 1 to hundreds of thousands.

So all those pessimists going from thread to thread talking about an impending explosion of the infection rate in Nigeria should know that if it would have the exploded, 1 month is an ample time for it to have done so like it did in some other countries. I'm hopeful that we will beat this.

PS. I honestly do not believe all of these high profile people coming out to say they've been infected with the virus. I think it's an arrangement to demystify the disease and make people with symptoms more willing to report themselves to the authorities. If you understand statistics, you'll know the chances of these people having it as against the standing case (of 131 as at today) and the population of Nigeria (200m) is almost non-existent.

Stay safe guys and stay home. Las Las we'll be fine.

eniolaamos7:
The government can dole out #1m to everyone each. The country's population is less than 300m. And more than that in the naira has been contributed by generous Nigerians... Please share the money for Nigerians and use the rest to buy materials to contain the lethal virus.

300m Naira equals 1 million for 300 people.
1 billion naira equals 1m for just 1000 people. 10 billion Naira equals 1m for 10,000 people only. Nigeria population is more than 200,000,000 (200 million) Do the maths..