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Mizwisdom:
Who else has noticed that as donations are increasing the virus seems to be spreading to other states?

Madam, this thing is not something to lie about. The truth is those donations helped to increase our testing capacity, hence more cases being reported

Eight new cases have been reported by NCDC across the nation

Our testing system ja now functioning well. We expect the numbers to be in excess of 300 by next weekend.
Reward for not taking the virus serious.

Who already said this thing will hit Africa hardest.

The numbers are much more than this. We dunno

Samietbig:
I keep wondering, they said the cure to the virus has not been found, yet infected people are been treated and they are recovering. With what are they treating these people?

You don't treat virus, u can only treat symtomatically, that's exactly what they are doing.

They keep treating the symptoms until the immune system pushes the virus out

The USA have recorded over a 100,000 cases of people infected with the covid19 virus. USA now leads the epicentre, Italy and China by about 20,000 cases.

POTUS, Donald Trump said the numbers Show how effective their testing system is.
Numbers keep rising around the world with Nigeria confirming five new cases,making the country's total number at 70.

No lies

Just read this on Twitter. Shit is getting real.

China ate the meat, the whole world is washing hands

adioolayi:
Border South Korea and China.... Forcibly quarantine people ....very little news from them. They are humbled too

North Korea right from time are Dependent on their locally made supplies. They hardly travel out of their country and have limited number of visitors

adioolayi:
The World is humbled already..... World's Super Power na scam.... USA, China, Russia, NorthKorea, Iran, Iraq...Israel ...every Nation of the world on their knees!

CoVID19 beat all their preparedness and ammunitions.

There is a supreme being afterwards....God Almighty!!!

Please remove North Korea from that list. They are free of the pandemic

flamingREED:
Cowpox virus subdued smallpox virus.
Fine.

Who knows? There might be a germ in the African flora that limits the impact of Covid-19.

Don't be deceived bro, it's spreading in Africa like wildfire

djoe21:
Ahh! The Great Bubonic Plague. When I saw a documentary about this plague, I couldn't believe my eyes.

They actually made a mistake killing dogs and cats because rats were the major carriers, and they multiplied in numbers since no cats or dogs to keep them in check.

U know science and medicine were not really advanced then

EmekusTHEgreat:
I'm surprised you didn't make mention of the Spanish Flu, that killed over 50 million people.

It's one of the worst things to happen to the world

It is finished

Dear Lord

Key words : returning travelers

5. Cholera—A Victory for Public Health Research

In the early- to mid-19th century, cholera tore through England, killing tens of thousands. The prevailing scientific theory of the day said that the disease was spread by foul air known as a “miasma.” But a British doctor named John Snow suspected that the mysterious disease, which killed its victims within days of the first symptoms, lurked in London’s drinking water.
Snow acted like a scientific Sherlock Holmes, investigating hospital records and morgue reports to track the precise locations of deadly outbreaks. He created a geographic chart of cholera deaths over a 10-day period and found a cluster of 500 fatal infections surrounding the Broad Street pump, a popular city well for drinking water.
“As soon as I became acquainted with the situation and extent of this irruption (sic) of cholera, I suspected some contamination of the water of the much-frequented street-pump in Broad Street,” wrote Snow.
With dogged effort, Snow convinced local officials to remove the pump handle on the Broad Street drinking well, rendering it unusable, and like magic the infections dried up. Snow’s work didn’t cure cholera overnight, but it eventually led to a global effort to improve urban sanitation and protect drinking water from contamination.
While cholera has largely been eradicated in developed countries, it’s still a persistent killer in third-world countries lacking adequate sewage treatment and access to clean drinking water.

4. Smallpox—A European Disease Ravages the New World

Smallpox was endemic to Europe, Asia and Arabia for centuries, a persistent menace that killed three out of ten people it infected and left the rest with pockmarked scars. But the death rate in the Old World paled in comparison to the devastation wrought on native populations in the New World when the smallpox virus arrived in the 15th century with the first European explorers.
The indigenous peoples of modern-day Mexico and the United States had zero natural immunity to smallpox and the virus cut them down by the tens of millions.
There hasn’t been a kill off in human history to match what happened in the Americas—90 to 95 percent of the indigenous population wiped out over a century,” says Mockaitis. “Mexico goes from 11 million people pre-conquest to one million.”
Centuries later, smallpox became the first virus epidemic to be ended by a vaccine. In the late 18th-century, a British doctor named Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids infected with a milder virus called cowpox seemed immune to smallpox. Jenner famously inoculated his gardener’s 9-year-old son with cowpox and then exposed him to the smallpox virus with no ill effect.
“[T]he annihilation of the smallpox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice,” wrote Jenner in 1801.
And he was right. It took nearly two more centuries, but in 1980 the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been completely eradicated from the face of the Earth.

3. The Great Plague of London—Sealing Up the Sick

London never really caught a break after the Black Death. The plague resurfaced roughly every 20 years from 1348 to 1665—40 outbreaks in 300 years. And with each new plague epidemic, 20 percent of the men, women and children living in the British capital were killed.
By the early 1500s, England imposed the first laws to separate and isolate the sick. Homes stricken by plague were marked with a bale of hay strung to a pole outside. If you had infected family members, you had to carry a white pole when you went out in public. Cats and dogs were believed to carry the disease, so there was a wholesale massacre of hundreds of thousands of animals.
The Great Plague of 1665 was the last and one of the worst of the centuries-long outbreaks, killing 100,000 Londoners in just seven months. All public entertainment was banned and victims were forcibly shut into their homes to prevent the spread of the disease. Red crosses were painted on their doors along with a plea for forgiveness: “Lord have mercy upon us.”
As cruel as it was to shut up the sick in their homes and bury the dead in mass graves, it may have been the only way to bring the last great plague outbreak to an end.

2. Black Death—The Invention of Quarantine

The plague never really went away, and when it returned 800 years later, it killed with reckless abandon. The Black Death, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 200 million lives in just four years.
As for how to stop the disease, people still had no scientific understanding of contagion, says Mockaitis, but they knew that it had something to do with proximity. That’s why forward-thinking officials in Venetian-controlled port city of Ragusa decided to keep newly arrived sailors in isolation until they could prove they weren’t sick.

At first, sailors were held on their ships for 30 days, which became known in Venetian law as a trentino. As time went on, the Venetians increased the forced isolation to 40 days or a quarantino, the origin of the word quarantine and the start of its practice in the Western world.
“That definitely had an effect,” says Mockaitis.

While some of the earliest pandemics faded by wiping out parts of the population, medical and public health initiatives were able to halt the spread of other diseases.

As human civilizations flourished, so did infectious disease. Large numbers of people living in close proximity to each other and to animals, often with poor sanitation and nutrition, provided fertile breeding grounds for disease. And new overseas trading routes spread the novel infections far and wide, creating the first global pandemics.


1. Plague of Justinian—No One Left to Die

Three of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history were caused by a single bacterium, Yersinia pestis, a fatal infection otherwise known as the plague.
The Plague of Justinian arrived in Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, in 541 CE. It was carried over the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt, a recently conquered land paying tribute to Emperor Justinian in grain. Plague-ridden fleas hitched a ride on the black rats that snacked on the grain.
The plague decimated Constantinople and spread like wildfire across Europe, Asia, North Africa and Arabia killing an estimated 30 to 50 million people, perhaps half of the world’s population.
“People had no real understanding of how to fight it other than trying to avoid sick people,” says Thomas Mockaitis, a history professor at DePaul University. “As to how the plague ended, the best guess is that the majority of people in a pandemic somehow survive, and those who survive have immunity.”

Its even good. They should all go home. We have a more dangerous thing to battle

alezzy13:
No one has really been able to give a concrete reason why Italy's case became so bad.

The deaths rates are eeriely staggering. Like something during the medival times when medicine was at it's infancy.

I really feel for those medic Sha.

They have the second oldest population on earth. Their Youngs mingle well with the elderlies. A higher % of those who died are elderly people.

Mutemenot:
N someone called to inform me that kaikai ( ogogoro) is the cure for corona It wasn't funny anyway cos it's painful how fake news circulate and people buy into it .
We that 're enlightened should please help in broadcasting the real news..

I follow NCDC on Twitter for Nigerian update on the virus. Then I use Wikipedia to follow the world numbers.

Mutemenot:
N someone called to inform me that kaikai ( ogogoro) is the cure for corona It wasn't funny anyway cos it's painful how fake news circulate and people buy into it .
We that 're enlightened should please help in broadcasting the real news..

Talking about this?

Nigerians

People are really dying in Italy, I fear for them

OgunLaakaye:


You have not heard the one that states that 5G is the cause of the virus.

You never see anything.

E full Nairaland here.

It gives me headache reading those news. We act so re.tar.ded

Pls someone should share medical cert with me, the one I can edit.

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Why do we like sharing fake news in this country especially when there is a major global or local problem. Please let's desist from such.. For first hand information about covid19 in Nigeria, you can follow the NCDC on Twitter. Please stop making people panic.

Some fake news spreading around

-New case in abuja
-A celebrity that attended AMVCA showing symptoms
-A youth Corp member in ekiti tested positive
-New case in Ibadan
-Canadian prime ministers wife dead
-dybala tested positive
-Ronaldinho and brother tests positive.


PLEASE share other fake news spreading around so we can discredit them.

MAY GOD heal us of this pestilence

God Bless Nigeria, God bless the world.

Okoroawusa:
It must be an NNPC station

I also bought at 125 and not at nnpc. These ones don't know what they are saying.

Manu stations selling 125 already in ibadan.