geunik:

Compare us with countries without a single case

Wallade:


You are the sick one: you asked for the mess and it's served you on a platter, enjoy it while more comes.

However, pick up your phone and google "countries that quarantine returning citizens". Don't forget to share the list of such countries. Let me give you an "expo" - China, find the others.

slowice:
The answer is yes.... The truth is that they ve every opportunity to do right and stop the virus from coming into the country knowing fully well that we do not have the capacity to handle it. They saw what was happening in Italy, UK and the US but were still reluctant to close our borders for reasons I don't know. They were warned by even Nigerians but they did not listen. Fg had about 7weeks of grace to save Nigeria but choose to play to the gallery. So yes, it was poorly handled and even now, we re not testing a lot of people and that is why WHO is predicting the worst.

helinues:


Are you guys not creative enough to counter this?

Must you always be aggressive?

PassingShot:

Closing a state's border isn't even an easy decision to take. How much more a national border. Even if the border was shit after the first case, would it have stopped at that one case?
And would citizens have been prevented from coming to their country even if airspace was closed?

Excuzeme:


His knowledge of what is going on is so mundane and his writeup is more of a politcal propaganda, devoid of facts.
Imagine, asking which coutry has quarrantine returnee-citizens!

Nigeria is just beginning to climb its own "Mountain of infection", statistically speaking, other countries that are nearing or have "peaked", are evacuating their citizens out of Nigeria, (US, UK, Europe, etc) because they know that in about two weeks from now, Nigeria will be experiencing its own "peak of wahala" (God help us), judging by the rising numver of people testing positives and number of runaway contacts......and they dont want their citizens to be in the midst of such pandemic, in the Nigerian space where paid agents come online to write article about what the Govt wants to hear.

donjancd19:

Second to last paragraph spoiled the whole write up,must you bring in politics in all you writes?You don't know anything about central Europe,they have porous borders,unlike here in Nigeria we have very limited borders that can easily be curtail.Every reasonable person in this country knows the the FG is not ready to battle this pandemic,what are the proactive measures they took so sar,practical None.What are palliative measures they took so far,none.God forbid the pandemic hit Nigeria like U.K. or other countries you mentioned above,Nigeria will be worse like war zone.Lets call a spade a spade.

suremanpatriot:
Every body knows is fg incompetence tht caused them to import this wave makin foreign disease into naija.We would not hav been in lockdown inside ,if they had lockup intl airports in particular,the fastest acces into a country. They must start compensatin the low class for groundin our smal caused by their selfish indecision and action of negligence of over 200million ppl.

PassingShot:

1. I already answered it in the original post.

2. If people have been dying as a result of suspected COVID case, we would have known. We haven't heard people dying mysteriously. Have you?

Till now, no govt in the world quarantines people just because they're returning from abroad. Where are the facilities and resources to keep thousands of people, including providing for their needs? So, if people choose to be irresponsible, the govt must still be blamed? Like those who filled wrong details in their form to enable contact tracing, right?

Many of you are unnecessarily hysterical.

PassingShot:
I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.
javascript:void(0);
If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:

1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.

2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.

3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.

The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!

Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.

Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?

Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!

Have a nice day.

rusher14:


And who makes up this group of suspected cases?

All international travelers ?


Why didnt other countries test all international travelers?

Are you aware in Sweden till today, people are still congregating in parks and public places?

brtaiwo:
Keep deceiving yourself that Nigeria has 139(151) confirmed cases.

The truth is the current cases in Nigeria should be over 1000 cases.

There are two reasons why they are not confirmed

First lack of equipment for testing. Which leads to the second

Very few have access to the test. The person who wrote the article must be an APC person.

hmohammed:


He pain am. Nigeria will win this war by his grace

Basher8583:


So great. At least you were not blind during his tenure. You saw how it played out where the so-called educated mind we're looting up and down. GEJs removal was a collective effort that is we all agreed on all the massive looting going on.

joyandfaith:


https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/03/30/why-swedens-coronavirus-approach-is-so-different-from-others/

PassingShot:

1. Iran had her first case only four days earlier than us. Check their stats. Check any other country that has their first case in the last week of Feb and compare.

2. Same as my first response here. Nigeria does not have low inflow of people from the western world and China. More than enough sef.

3. Spike is usually with first 3 to 4 weeks of its outbreak. We have passed five weeks since the first case.

Closing your airspace is not a decision as simple as what yoi like to eat. It takes a lot of careful analysis and conviction that it's the right thing to do. Tell me which country did just that? If it was that simple and easy, many would have.

Lastly, the govt has given money to LASG and provided resources to NCDC. Like I said earlier, we can only expect the govt to act within its resources.

Ayoefa:


Ode ni Baba n la Baba e. Omo ale jati jati.
Dumb ass idiotic fool.
All countries including Nigeria will still allow their citizens entry into the country as long as they can find their way back to the border. I as an American can still enter the US today as long as I can make it back to the country. China as banned all foreigners but its citizens are still allowed to enter.
Monkey, better start getting your news from reputable news outlets instead of untrained Nigerian bloggers.
What does that say about any country that refuses to let it's citizens back into the country, do you expect other countries to take them?
Low IQ foolish monkey. Better go and get some home training from your father and then come back to post sensible comments. Olodo, atole dindinri amukun meko, ole.

Wallade:


Stoping the international flights and restricting movements at the border plus Covid 19 testing at the borders would have been less expensive, more effective and successful at curbing the spread of Covid 19 than the thrash your FG are doing currently.

Excuzeme:


No, l cant read.
I do not need to discredit the article because "if you argue with a fool, people wont know the difference and he or she will steal overun you with experience".
The only reason you are here jumping up and down to defend the rubbish he wrote is just because the President is Buhari, a fellow Northerner and Muslim.
Aside that, l know you have nothing else upstairs, but weldone all the same, Cowdung.

PassingShot:
I have read a lot of wailing and criticism about the FG’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic since it arrived in Nigeria on Feb 25th. The most recent was reactions to a thread comparing Nigeria’s handling of the crisis to that of UK. Expectedly but sadly, a lot of ignorant commenters were dancing albeit nakedly based on the newspaper’s report which didn’t even say that the UK is handling the pandemic better than Nigeria.

If any unbiased person wants to make any comparison about govts handling of the pandemic, their objective analysis will include parameters such as each govt’s efforts before COVID arrived at their shores (very important), each govt’s immediate response as soon as COVID arrived in their country, number of infected persons (confirmed) and lastly and most importantly, the number of deaths recorded as a result of the pandemic. But since many Nigerians have allowed their common sense to be affected by prejudice and hatred, they have abandoned these relevant parameters in making evaluating the govt’s response to the crisis. Now let’s quickly look at the following facts:

1. Measures taken by the Nigerian Govt before a COVID case was discovered in Nigeria: Long before the pandemic found its way into Nigeria, the FG embarked on monitoring body temperature of people flying into the country to be able to discover who may have showed any signs of the disease. By this time and despite that the disease was at their shores, USA, UK, Iran and many other “saner clime” countries were not even taking this measure. Dr. joe Abah did a thread on it and the World Health Organization commended Nigeria for this measure and going as far as using Nigeria as an example of how countries should respond to the pandemic. Read https://twitter.com/drjoeabah/status/1233989553008119809?lang=en for Dr. Joe’s Twitter thread and https://guardian.ng/news/coronavirus-who-commends-fgs-effort-on-response/ for WHO’s commendation.

2. Number of cases recorded in Nigeria versus that of UK or any other “saner country”: As at the time of writing this article (01/04/2010 @12 noon Naija time), the UK has 25,150 confirmed cases and 1,789 deaths; the USA has 188,639 cases and 4,059 deaths; Iran has 47,593 cases and 3,036 deaths, Italy has 105,792 cases and 12,428 deaths while many other “saner countries” have similar gloomy numbers to show for their efforts. Nigeria on the other hand has recorded 139 cases and 2 deaths. I expect some readers to jump on the fact that Nigeria is not testing as much as the mentioned countries, but the fact remains that while that may be responsible for the low number of confirmed cases, it couldn’t have been responsible for low number of deaths. Not carrying out enough testing would not have prevented people from being struck down by the disease or people dying as a result of it.

3. Another indication that Nigeria’s govt is doing her best in containing the spread of the virus can be seen when one compares the time the country’s first case was discovered to when those of the “saner countries” were discovered and juxtapose with the number of confirmed cases and deaths. Italy had her first case around January 31st, 2020 (two months ago), Spain had its first on Feb. 1st and Italy had it on Feb 21st which was only four days earlier than when Nigeria had hers on Feb 25th. Compare the number of deaths/confirmed cases of these countries and see if you have not been unreasonable in your criticism of the government.

The problem with wailers and destructive critics is that they always shift the goalposts. As such, you can never have any reasonable conversation with them. When the first case was reported in Nigeria, lead by their frustrated Wailer-in-Chief, they said it was a scam to be used to loot money. And when few more cases were confirmed some days after, they turned back to say the govt should have closed the bother long ago! Such is their pathetic life!

Ask them which country Nigeria should have emulated in containing the disease, those of them who still have a bit of sense will stutter because they would not dare say USA, UK, Italy or Germany but the chronic wailers who have obviously lost it all will still compare how Nigeria is managing the spread of the disease to the same UK which has lost almost two thousands of her people to the disease.

Does Nigeria have the facilities or the means to combat the COVID19 pandemic? The answer is a resounding NO. Does the country have a robust health system compared to those “saner countries”? Again, the answer is an emphatic No? Do we have enough money to deploy to tackle any outbreak in the size of that witnessed in UK, Italy, USA or Germany? The answer is an obvious NO. But the fact is that the state of our health system or the size of our purse wasn’t brought about by the current government but a result of many years of failure. So, why wailing uncontrollably instead of supporting the govt’s efforts at preventing the spread of the disease?

Had it been Buhari who reacted the way Trump and Boris Johnson first reacted to the COVID19 outbreak – by dismissing it and making all sorts of joke of it, or just like Seyi Makinde (your “presidential material”) who called it an APC disease, perhaps you would have possibly reacted in such a bad manner. There should be a limit to wailing!

Have a nice day.

PointB:


1. No you did not answer in it in the original post. You said our Covid-19 case was low compared to other nations. What you failed to mention was the number of test we have done versus other countries. When you do those number of tests, that will give you fairly good idea as per the rate of infection and related deaths.

2. As said earlier, it is only when you know the problem that you will know the cause. People die every now and then of pneumonia induce deaths. Pneumonia is not a strange disease, it's a very common one in these part of the world. Now the question is how many of these pneumonia deaths are related to Covid-19. There is only one way to tell - TEST for covid-19, during the illness or at death to determine the root cause of the death.

As for quarantining, you start by closing your borders (early); anyone who come in after that is subject to quarantine. Ghana quarantined over a thousand travelers in this outbreak, and placed them in a 3 Star Hotels and government expenses. China is currently doing that, as is South Korea. I think they understand that Mandatory Quarantine is more cost effective than contact tracing that comes with symptomatic infections. Something that sounds like rocket science to FG planners, including the so-called Chief of Staff, and their sympathizers.

Excuzeme:


His knowledge of what is going on is so mundane and his writeup is more of a politcal propaganda, devoid of facts.
Imagine, asking which coutry has quarrantine returnee-citizens!

Nigeria is just beginning to climb its own "Mountain of infection", statistically speaking, other countries that are nearing or have "peaked", are evacuating their citizens out of Nigeria, (US, UK, Europe, etc) because they know that in about two weeks from now, Nigeria will be experiencing its own "peak of wahala" (God help us), judging by the rising numver of people testing positives and number of runaway contacts......and they dont want their citizens to be in the midst of such pandemic, in the Nigerian space where paid agents come online to write article about what the Govt wants to hear.

imhotep:

There was NO PROPER screening at the airports, that is precisely how FG and El-dullardeen have mishandled the covid-19 pandemic.
Sai Mama


CC lzaa itooworwor metaphysical johnmartus