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Jaqenhghar:
We are talking of Israel and you are talking of America.
Look at the death rate in Israel. In Israel you will not hear of health workers screaming "corona viris "" and rejecting patients because their hazard allowance is 5k. All these and much more

Ok so while the rest of the world is struggling to contain the virus, you believe israel is doing an uber stellar job at it. Okay.

jeyselassie:
There is no way you can confirm if he hasn't been exposed this is a pandemic.

Lol, I might even be a carrier and not have any symptoms. But that doesn't make me eligible to get tested. No symptoms, no test.

Rajosh:
so you believe the nonsense report ncdc is releasing?
Nigeria has not tested more up to 2000 people yet. many more are carrying it.

Maybe, maybe not. Until more people are tested, no one knows for sure. When you produce 7 billion testing kits to test the whole world, do let us know.

Powersurge:
The way some people sound on this forum baffles me. Unfortunately, over 100 people liked this.

So simple explanation of the protocol wouldn't suffice? B4 someone who is schooled and resides in planet Earth decided to go for test, do you think he does not have cause? Who told you people are doing selective testing in UK and US? If you have reasons to be tested (which will be confirmed by a doctor who would professionally discuss with you), you will be tested.

B4 someone will go through all these rigors just to get tested, do you think he is so jobless? Why is NCDC accusing Nigerians of not coming forth? Is there a higher level of unprofessionalism than the one displayed by these health officials?

If you don't know, ask nicely and I will tell you. I have family members who are doctors and nurses in the U.S. they are at the frontlines taking care of COVID-19 positive patients. If you have no symptoms, you will not get tested. It's as simple as that. Whatever else you think is just you deceiving yourself. Also be careful about what you read online, OP might be overexagerating.

JetAgecomputers:
So it's when you're already dying that's when u should start going through this procedures, you're sick oooo, it's better as he told us now so you'll know you're on your own

Lol typical Nigerian. No symptoms, no test.

IJEYdiamond:
Please explain further.. how did their ashes cure coro??

Where did you read that their ashes cured anything?? You want to cremate their bodies and bury their ashes deep underground so it doesnt come in contact with any human or animal.

enomakos:
you are wrong we have more covid-19 infected people than israel,only the elites have gone for the tests,poor man de go church for healing

You know this because you telepathically tested everyone in Nigeria right?

thorbar:
Gov. El-rufia, Chioma(Davido's wife) both tested positive without symptoms.

Right. Celebrities all over the world will gain access to the testing kits before you and me. That's life for you, it's not just a Nigerian problem. El Rufai and members of the executive branch absolutely should get tested without symptoms of they feel the need for it. A country without its leaders is an anarchy. We don't want that.

darealez:
Two things to note, I had said she showed no symptoms and you had said it's LIKELY she MAY have been displaying symptoms... Never Speculate! I read the broadcast directly from source and I simply cited as expressed. She showed no symptoms.

Ok fine lets assume she showed no symptoms. Are you really shocked that the rich and famous have access to things the average person doesn't? Or you think it only happens in Nigeria?

vineyardfarms:
@ jamparkme. Your name tells who you are. I decree by the decree of heaven, henceforth you and your generation born and yet unborn be a slave to slaves.

Your entire lineage will remain perpetually poor and wretched.

Anopheles:
I can see plenty members are quoting JamParkMe, throwing words and adding false facts here and there...

To start with, what the poster did is careless and a waste of human resources and time. You had no history of travel and no history of exposure with a positive case but yet decided to get tested rather than practicing social distancing.

NCDC criteria for getting tested are as follows:

1) Anyone with a recent travel history who present with fever, cough or breathing within 14 days of arrival

2) Anyone exposed to a confirmed case with the above symptoms within 14 days from point of contact

3) Any of the above 2 with no symptoms. This is a plus/minus cos most people under this careful should self isolate...


The poster doesn't fit into any of these 3. So why does he want to get tested?

There aren't enough testing kits in this country or anywhere in the world for the people showing symptoms let alone the asymptomatic ones with no travel or contact with a confirmed case.

No. Ghana doesn't provide door to door testing
No. Germany doesn't do half a million tests weekly
No. USA doesn't do tests for everyone that requests for it
Yes. Nigeria tests close contacts with a confirmed case by doing what we call contact tracing.


USA health workers have erred their complaints even just yesterday on the limited equipments and their doctors/nurses treating the cases not being tested.

Any news you read is about private organizations ordering test kits for their employees.


Davido and his family should've gone into quarantine the first minute they dropped from the plane but decided to throw a party and exposed others. Their testing is most likely private...


Besides, every nation has a problem with selectivity for high profile citizens. The U.S and other European countries have news all over about celebs and politicians with no symptoms getting tested.

So how do we tackle this? STAY AT HOME.
If you come in contact with a positive case and show no symptoms, QUARANTINE
If you had a recent travel history to high index countries, QUARANTINE
If you don't have any of this, observe strict SOCIAL DISTANCING.
Now isn't a time to run to NCDC "just to get tested". They have positive cases that need containing and attention


The whole world doesn't have enough resources to deal with positive cases and worse random testers. PLEASE STAY AT HOME and get enlightened


Thank you

Thank you for the PSA, these people really needed it.

Johnsinia:
You are seriously mad or about to...

I believe you are referring to your dad.

sylvalord:
Stop saying rubbish

I don't expect you to understand a wise saying even if its right in front of you.

SirLakes:
Oya tell us the figures, Mr news watcher

The time and data you spend on romance section on nairaland could be used reading world news. Think about that.

mojeed4:
Davido and his entire crew were tested. Were they all showing serious symptoms? �

I see a lot of people jubilating because majority of those confirmed are well known individuals / politicians and those close to them. What we don’t know is the several others infected who are lesser known and prolly spreading it already.

Money talks all over the world. There's a prediction that 80% of Americans will end up contracting this virus and only 0.2% will die from it. This is good news, they will develop antibodies to fight it off it it rears its ugly head again in the future.

Damntruth:
China foreign reserves is far more than the USA..how do u quantify rich biko

GDP.

clemzo101:
why are you talking like?

Read son.

SirLakes:
Haha,
You are daft
bye

Not as daft as you though.

RisenPhoenix:
For now. With only 111 cases so far, Nigeria's health system is already underfunctioning; you even hear of doctors and nurses running away from suspected patients and the difficulty of getting through official lines. I can imagine what would happen when the number of infections rises to its possible maximum; going by trends in other highly populated countries which were unable to contain their infections (the US is 145000+ infected and rising). The Nigerian health system will be overwhelmed much more rapidly and at much lower infection figures than Israel.

I guess our younger population mitigates the effect of the virus a bit. But we really really need a proactive decision making system right now and a lot of speed work. Our legislative body is not really used to the kind of extremely efficient management system needed right now. It is kind of like using a traffic police team in a situation where a navy seal team is required.

Right now, our only real hope right now is that;

1. The heat truly limits the infection/ transmission rates or at least the severity of the symptoms, and
2. The Chloroquine cure does really work and that the federal government approves its use very fast and gears up its production capacity very very quickly.

Otherwise, we're up shit creek without a swimsuit. I already suspect that more people are likely to be infected than have been confirmed.

Exactly. The heat probably has an effect along with our habit of drinking chloroquine for malaria. We will weather the storm better than other countries, I guarantee it.

gaddafe:
The question here is why is NCDC afraid of explaining this to him if it's as you said?

We don't know the full story. Be careful of what you read online.

DModeCntStopMe:
So for your mind now, this country has a leader/leaders

I am done with you.

Stay safe

Of course we have leaders. Is this an anarchy?

vineyardfarms:
YOU ARE STUPID

Your whole lineage is stupid.

sulaak:
You plan and design for eventual failure. Storing test kits for future epidemic or pandemic is the way sensible government operate.

For whatever reason, you believe that government should not plan for an epidemic or pandemic which is what we are currently experiencing. COVID-19 is relating to Influenza, I doubt any trained virologist will not have knowledge of the how Spanish flu mutated from droplets to an airborne pandemic that infected 500 million and killed 10 million.

We are at the very early stages of this pandemic and reading on the previous pandemic such as the Spanish Flu, I notice common similarities in the events that are currently transpiring such as drug poisoning, economic downturn and the virus mutate into different strains.









https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic

Oga you cannot stock pile testing kits for an infection that's novel to the scientific world. Stop making baseless arguments. If there's a widespread infection of the Spanish Flu, Polio and other illnesses combated in the past, there will be better prepared. I repeat you cannot have test kits for an unknown virus unless of course you have psychic powers to predict the future.

Johnsinia:
My friend, leave the USA alone, they are 1000000 miles ahead of Nigeria. They can cope with it. They are not just looking for a temporary cure but a permanent cure for the whole world including your gabbage Nigeria. They are world giant. USA is not in anyway your mate to be dragging right with, go and drag with Niger pls

They are not our mates yet, their nurses are using thrash bags for protection? They are not our mates yet their medical staff are reusing disposable masks for 1 week. You are right, they are not our mates when it comes to dealing with contagious infections, we are way ahead of them.

They've brought more asymptomatic carriers to come and wipe out Nigeria. They should be flown right back to the USA immediately.

DModeCntStopMe:
But our useless politicians can test as many times as they wish even their family members

And why didn't they (NCDC) make it clear to them, why directing them from here to there each office absolving themselves of their duties without no concrete info or explanation

Anyone defending this should have his head seriously investigated.

Yes politicians and head of states must get tested. The last thing you want is mass infection of the executive branch. A nation without a leader or rule of law is an anarchy, you don't want that.

Johnsinia:
It's not all quadratic equation can factorization method solve eventhough, factorization method is the easiest and fastest solution. completing the square and the quadratic formulae are tough and complex method but can solve all quadratic equation. This has already countered you simple arithmatic analysis.

All those nation have had like morethan hundred cases even b4 Nigeria had her first. Yet, they have handled it properly. Just pray Nigeria do better in just less than a mouth it's already above 100 cases. Secondary, the number of people entering into those country before the pandemic per day are higher compared to those entering Nigeria. Is just like saying, you better stay in other state in Nigeria with Less cases than stay in Lagos or Abuja with the highest cases of the virus.

They've not handled it any better. Their president was calling it a hoax and an attempt by the opposing political party to hurt his chance at reelection. They had more than 3 months to prepare but only started taking it seriously 2 weeks ago. So don't be too quick to judge. They have nurses wearing garbage bags instead of gowns; medical staff reusing disposable masks for 1 week due to shortages. But nooooo you all want to cast the Nigerian government as being inadequate when the whole world is having a challenge right now.

aragon4realz:
is oit because he did not mention or say anything about symptoms? who knows if he is having symptoms. this will still happen to people showing symptoms

Maybe if he had symptoms they will listen to him. We can't speculate what will happen then. But this individual had no symptoms and wanted to get tested. Ain't gonna happen.

clemzo101:
Do they know if the person has come in contact with an infected person? They should first interview the person and ask some relevant questions before deciding whether he should be tested or not rather than avoiding the person.

Maybe they should've handled it better. But just coming in contact with someone who's infected isn't enough reasons to get tested. No symptoms, no test.

mvem:
guy this is not Ebola...98% of people with coronavirus recovers and test negative within few weeks...hundred of thousands are recovering. It morbidity, that's its spread is the issue not even its potency that is about 1-2%...even your lassa fever has higher mortality rate. You guyz are taking this thing in another way. Thousands are recovering and about 5% end up being severe cases because of old age of they have underlying Ill health...what even kills the few is the pneumonia it causes because it behaves as a flu virus....stop all these misinformation...

Yes. Best we eliminate those who tested positive before they infect the elderly with chronic comorbidities.

Parisian:
Shut up and stop saying what you don't know. In those countries you mentioned, they're testing anyone who comes forward.

You are another misinformed idiot. No symptoms, no tests.

RisenPhoenix:
For now, yes. But anyone who falls sick; as many will; will obviously get better care in Israel than in Nigeria. Israel has better medical care services, much faster response and more ventilators.

Perhaps. But their healthcare system is overwhelmed. There is a shortage of ventilators all over the world. Its so bad even car manufacturers like GM and Tesla are making them to increase supply. They should've stayed in Nigeria.