₦airaland Forum

Alexk2:
The cases are even far underreported in reality. I pray we're not overwhelmed by the time reality done on us as a country.

kingi777:
Good day Nairalanders. Since March this year, Covid-19 has been the major issue in Nigeria as it led to the shutingdown of the economy. Many people don't believe the existence. My dear people, I was having a double opinion about the existence too. For the first time, I'm beginning to believe the pandemic does exist. My friend who was a Medical Laboratory Scientist with Kaduna State Ministry of Health and the head of the laboratory unit, Gwantu General Hospital was down with malaria like symptoms and treated himself for several days with no improvement. Though he was a high blood pressure patient. The fever increased and symptoms of Covid-19 started manifesting. He was taken to Kafanchan Gen Hospital but no Doctor agreed to come close to him when they saw his critical condition. He was advised to check into the isolation centre but when they got there, there was nothing on ground as everywhere was dirty with no facility. The family was advised to take him to Kaduna isolation centre but he gave up the ghost as he was under distress all these while. His samples were taken and it came out positive for Covid-19. His corpse is deposited at Kafanchan Gen Hospital at the moment. The people that were running up and down to save his life were helpless as they watched him dying. Their samples had been collected yesterday, taken to Kaduna today and are awaiting the outcome of the results. The question they are asking is: why is government saying they have spent huge sum of money with nothing to show for it especially in other parts of the state/country? Should preparation for Covid-19 management be made only in the state capitals? What about towns that are very far from the isolation centres in the state capitals? Government should do something to accommodate the people by creating and equipping more centres in the hinter lands. Corona virus (Covid-19) is real!
Do you know anybody anywhere in Nigeria who has died as a result of Covid-19?
Cc: Dominique
Sissy3

lanreabbey:
Google na ur best answer,don't ask me rubbish question..

lanreabbey:
Our Government don't know that this Covid19 shit has entered the system deeper than the figure they are publicizing.. That's one of the symptoms of Corona,,, Just of present, a neighbor of mine has that symptoms,headache,fever and chills with his whole family. I have to avoid them cos a friend that visited them also has that but he isolated himself till he got better after two weeks which I have to be the one get him food and other tins he needed like drugs and other herbal stuffs which I always drop in front of his room... Any bastard that come out shout that no Covid 19 in Nigeria.. My prayer is that the tin should catch you and your household,that is when you will know that it is REAL

seproperties:
b Can't you for once Keep your Ignorance for once ,Must you always exhibit your stupidity everytime .Why don't you go to Isolation centres yourself and begin to lick saliva of those u don't belief are infected to prove your Point .

Lematin:
Please oooo
How much is danfo charging from Iyana Ipaja to Yaba presently??

NzeNaOgbunike:
Thank you for this tips.

Which other company(brand) can you recommend for me?

I no dey stay one place so I cook and refrigerate always.

The Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the Second Niger Bridge, and the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway, among others, are to be completed in the first quarter of 2022, the Federal Government has said.

It said the roads were grouped as essential infrastructure and projected to be delivered in less than two years.

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said this in a live television programme monitored by our correspondent in Abuja on Thursday night.

He said, “The Second Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Abuja-Kaduna-Kano roads are part of the projects under the Federal Government’s essential infrastructure development fund and their expected delivery dates are in quarter one of 2022.”

The minister argued that real construction work only commenced on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when the current government came to power.

Fashola said, “Since 2007, no measure of reasonable construction work took place on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, except palliatives. It was when this government came that construction really started.

“Those who don’t use the road will not appreciate what is going on there, but those who use the road on a daily basis for their survival will tell you that the bottlenecks and traffic time on that road had significantly reduced.”

When told that the initial plan was to deliver the road next year, the minister said about one year was lost in the construction process.

He said, “That was the plan and you know that we’ve lost almost a year of work and I complained at the time when the budget for that road was reduced from N31bn to N10bn, at the time we were owing the contractors N15bn.

“Essentially, no work was done in that year 2017 because the contractors specifically stopped work.”

The minister insisted that the first quarter of 2022 remained the expected delivery date for the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and other essential infrastructure projects, but noted that the COVID-19 pandemic had slowed work on some of the projects.

“Mind you, as I speak to you now, we have lost essentially the prime of our working period, which is the dry season in the COVID-19 period. We have to try and recover all of that,” Fashola said.

For the Second Niger Bridge, he said all the foundation works had been completed, adding that the project was on course to meet the expected delivery date.

PATIENTS who stop showing Coronavirus symptoms —fever and respiratory, will be discharged without waiting for a laboratory negative test.

Besides, those who fail to show symptoms after testing positive will be discharged 14 days after, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday while unveiling the new treatment protocols.

The NCDC said this followed new data from Singapore that showed that RNA detected beyond 10 days is no longer infectious as no viable virus is grown by a viral culture. Such patients will be asked to go home but advised to continue self-isolation one week after discharge.

Director-General of NCDC Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, who spoke at the daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, in Abuja, said: “There have been new science emerging about the duration of infectivity of individual patients. It led to the WHO issuing new clinical guidelines.

“We then convened colleagues across our organisation, the department of hospital services of the Federal Ministry of Health, as well as other colleagues with whom we work, to review our guidelines and issue new guidelines for the country, and of course adapting it to local circumstances.

“The key thing is that the management of COVID-19 will be made primarily supportive; we don’t have any treatment so far that has any proven impact on morbidity.

“One of the major changes that have happened is the discharge criteria. While these guidelines are obviously and primarily targeted at physicians managing patients, it is important that patients and people know. There are two groups of patients – symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.

“For symptomatic patients, they may now be discharged at least 10 days after symptoms onset and at least three days without symptoms. If your symptoms last for longer, we will wait for longer managing you supportively.

“If you are asymptomatic, you can be discharged 14 days after your first positive test. So, we no longer have to wait for a negative test to discharge. This way you can go home with confidence that you are no longer infective and you’re not putting your family and friends or anyone else at risk.

“We are not encouraging that people be discharged while they are still symptomatic. We are talking about discharging people that are asymptomatic and have recovered. That is, you are symptomatic and have recovered or you are completely asymptomatic throughout your clinical episodes.

“At that point, you really don’t need more clinical interventions, even at home; you just need time to recover. It is just like you recover from any other illness. You don’t need any special intervention once you have been discharged.

“Change is difficult because we have been saying you have to have the negative test. Even though we have published these results, many physicians are still not using them. We can assure them and everyone managing cases that 14 days after, in fact, 10 days is what the evidence says.

“But we have added 14 days to make it two weeks for people to then discharge for patients that are asymptomatic.”

Concerning the use and availability of personal protective equipment (PPEs), the NCDC boss urged both public and private hospitals to procure their PPEs and factor it into the cost for health care delivery.

He said: “Our hospitals both public and private, really need to include the purchasing of personal protective equipment in their procurement plans. These are things that they have to buy to keep their hospital going.

“What we are doing now is simply a response to an outbreak – managing logistics, sending around PPEs across the country. This is definitely not what we should be doing as a country. So, that has to change as we refigure our health system to include this.

Yes, these things are expensive but you have to include it. Healthcare can become expensive but whatever the cost, it has to be factored into the cost of delivering healthcare. There is no point in having a doctor or a nurse working if they cannot have the personal protective equipment that they need.

“We need to push harder as doctors, nurses, medical lab scientists, to ensure that there is running water in our clinics, and insist on these things.

“Patients are encouraged to ask questions of their doctors when next he or she wants to attend to them without a face mask or hand glove.”

oloko1859:
On the contrary, I'll advice a fresh graduate to come to Lagos. It'll expose you to things you could never learn in the classroom. It'll help in mind grooming and prepare such person for future opportunities. You'll understand what competition and smartness really is.

ClitRaider:
Even if they're doubled, how on Earth will you board a bus from Oshodi to Ikeja @400?
Even a Uber won't charge that much.
Where is your area?

ClitRaider:
Yes, I'm not in Lag at the moment but no matter what happens, if you know your way around Lagos, you won't spend that much.
I'ma fucking Lagosian.

ClitRaider:
Lekki to Oshodi is not 700.
Oshodi to Ikeja is 100
You can lie for Africa!!
If you continue like this you will work for lie Mohammed.

2Ballz:
We don't advise you on self medication instead you should have an appointment with a doctor in the clinic for a full health review on this. Primaquine is helpful but other drugs of different action module may be added.

2Ballz:
We don't advise you on self medication instead you should have an appointment with a doctor in the clinic for a full health review on this. Primaquine is helpful but other drugs of different action module may be added.

peggywebbs:
It's simple if you don't believe something, you find out yourself. Denying the existence of something does not make it nonexistent. Coronavirus is a virus just like every other disease that has plagued the earth. The only difference is that it is new and foreign to everyone.

I don't deny the corruption in the country but to rule out a complete disease is you being insensitive. Simply pay a visit to the hospital, ask people around the hospital premises if you are not given access and stop being ignorant.

As for your question of if I know someone who has died through the virus, the answer is yes.

peggywebbs:
You're still on the virus is fake.. please go and find out, yaba is not far.

peggywebbs:
All the people saying 30k is too much please go and volunteer for them. If they die of the virus will you complain its too much? 815 doctors are already infected and you people don't even have passion for them.

And we are complaining about the government..we ourselves are terrible. We vote ourselves into power. So when next you want to complain about the government ask yourself if you are any better

thesicilian:
Election around the corner.

tyup:
Even the most gullible knows this man is innocent unlike that Air peace scammer the Elder elder distance blooder of Invictus

Dahcastro:
@sulaimon.. I have someone that knows much about that and he said I'll see a good one for around 90k..
Am carrying him along
Thanks

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