kelvinhilton:
Nigeria will rise again

Nigeria was never up...it has always been a sh!thole

DZTech:
If you knew the level of corruption in the whole project, you would just enter your inner room to go and weep.

With the way they're trying to steal every available kobo, it's as if they actually BELIEVE the virus is a joke!
This confirms the pervasive stupidity of Nigeria's elite.
Just protect you and yours, because what’s coming will be cataclysmic.

Nothing cataclysmic is coming. We have defeated the virus. Not from the effort of the government, but it's our gene that's saving us from the virus. The strain of the virus isn't lethal in this part of the world for reasons yet unknown. I can bet, you're likely to recover from this than malaria (with out taking a drug)

I think it is not correct to say Nigeria have tested just 5,000 people only. The record is just not updated. If you have been following the record closely you will notice that we have been complaining that it is just 5,000 people tested since 3 to 4 days now.
What about people tested on Friday, Saturday and today? How come the 5000 has not increased.....
Or are we saying they have suspended testing and they are just giving us report of those tested previously.......

iwriterng:
Trust data coming from Nigeria at your own peril.

Is only 323 confirmed cases na!
No fear...



Abi?

babytoun:


You cant say its not spreading when our testing is one of worst in the world

That's just it. Testing or not it is not a silent disease. Bodies will pile up. 20,000k bodies in a month in the u.s. where will you hide the bodies? We will hear of interconnected prominent people dying or a group of people from the same market. That is how it was identified in Wuhan. We haven't seen that.

Sh0lar:
I think it is not correct to say Nigeria have tested just 5,000 people only. The record is just not updated. If you have been following the record closely you will notice that we have been complaining that it is just 5,000 people tested since 3 to 4 days now.
What about people tested on Friday, Saturday and today? How come the 5000 has not increased.....
Or are we saying they have suspended testing and they are just giving us report of those tested previously.......

Nigerians like to read report and paper and do nothing about its authenticity
So that's what they are doing for us.
Writing any good looking number on paper and presenting it to us to look.

Abeg make una show me love...6017804479... keystone bank

Farmdog:
@The only reason being that the virus dies easily in temperatures above 27 degrees.... Africa death recordings seems to be steady/less than expected mostly because of the hot weather.

This has been suggested. But we do not yet have data or science to back it up. Sometimes things are endemic to a certain area. Africa is weird like that.
Why is LASSA not ravaging lagos like it does Edo and other states?
We also know lagos has the most Corona came through lagos due to travel
Bbc did a story on how 99% of prostitutes in Italy were from Edo state. They didnt understand the difference between state of origin as it relates to ancestry versus where someone was born and raised. They couldnt even underetand it could just be a few people started the business of importing girls from Edo and it grew from there. We have to understand the underpinnings of why things are. So i am not going to just say it is a climate thing with no data to back it up.

Nigeria is a failed country...

This has revealed our flaws... our leaders past and present are the most useless set of humans to to have ruled this nation

I dont know why we are always negative minded. You cant begin to compare other African countries with Nigeria on what basis. The challenges of each country differs. USA is one of the most powerful country in the world but has the highest casualties. At the initial stage, it could not do massive testing. Lets appreciate the effort of our leaders. This is a problem facing the entire world at the same time, we need to encourage our leaders by been positive minded. Can anybody explain why we have very low casualty. A lot of effort has gone into what you are seeing now. The whole world is surprised at the rate at which Nigerian Govt has been able to control the situation. United Nation came out openly to appreciate the effort of our govt why cant we Nigerians do the same

nsiba:
With the low test how many don DIE?
By now dead bodies would have littered Lagos state entire environment

When you do not test, you cannot confirm death rate. Perhaps many have died and they were not reported as COVID 19 patients. Have you thought of that with our stigmatisation...

Seun:
We've been told that it's difficult to do massive testing for the Coronavirus Disease in Nigeria. That we don't have the trained workers, technology, and money to do it like South Korea. This is why we've only conducted 5,000 tests in a country with a population of 195.9 million. This got me thinking about other African countries:

South Africa, with a population of 57.78 million, has conducted 80,085 tests.
Ghana, with a population of 29.77 million, has conducted 37,954 tests.
Egypt, with a population of 98.42 million, has conducted 25,000 tests.

Also, Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, is 9th in the list of African countries which have conducted the most tests. We are also 26th in the list of African countries that have conducted the most tests relative to the size of their population. Should we be conducting way more tests?

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The only semblance of seriousness is because coronavirus started attacking from the top. Had it been it started in any of the slums, we will be talking about 100 tests only.

The Abba Kyari shock and other governors' audio positive tests were great awakening to otherwise nonchalant kleptomaniacs.

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babytoun:
Test per million ratio shows that nigeria has tested only 24 people per million . This is the third worst in the entire world which only betters the ratio of mozambique and Malawi

Even small Niger Republic has tested 4600

When u ave unprepared people at leadership position.Hope by 2023 nigerians would have sense then.

An American will always defend his country. Lets stand up for Nigeria and be counted as patriotic. The world was expecting Nigeria to explode but God will never abadon us.

Validated:

When you do not test, you cannot confirm death rate. Perhaps many have died and they were not reported as COVID 19 patients. Have you thought of that with our stigmatisation...

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Perhaps, our stigmatization.... Ogbeni u no get talk
Have you u thought if covid19 has been in existence or a small thing compared to malaria n typhoid?
The death rate they predicted for Nigeria is not happening and instead of you to be thanking Jah Rastafari you r telling me "perhaps or our stigmatization"
Park well well abeg covid19 don enter one Chance for 9ja

Millz404:
With the way things are done in this country sometimes i think the country is under some kind of curse. They are more interested in embezzling the funds for testing than bother with testing anybody.

People that are making money off the bokoharam crisis.. you think corona will be an exception?

Thank God people are not dropping dead on the streets, i think people are busy infecting others and recovering without even knowing it.That is our saving grace.

I strongly share this view. God help us

Validated:

When you do not test, you cannot confirm death rate. Perhaps many have died and they were not reported as COVID 19 patients. Have you thought of that with our stigmatisation...

Did anybody dye in family and the government did not tell you. Or did any one on this forum complain of a missing member of the family. You people just talk trash sometimes. In this digital age how come many died and family members, friends and colleagues didn't raise alarm on social media.

People just want NCDC to do random testing. It does not work like that. There has to be a population of interest at this stage to test. We are yet to see clusters of deaths or clusters of people with respiratory illness to suggest mass testing is needed. Let’s hope and pray it does not spread further. The more it spreads and the more confirmed cases. The more people to test (which NCDC ain’t capable of). This is why social distancing is very important at this stage to totally flatten the curve. Then track and test suspected cases as they come up.

lagdmark:

Did anybody dye in family and the government did not tell you. Or did any one on this forum complain of a missing member of the family. You people just talk trash sometimes. In this digital age how come many died and family members, friends and colleagues didn't raise alarm on social media.

Inasmuch as Nigeria is not working I don't agree with you guys that the more you test the more positive case you get, that is not true, if there is more case of coronavirus in Nigeria by now there will be a lot of death that link to the disease.

Venezuela have already tested 181,335 people but have only 181 positive case.

I believe that Nigeria health system knows what they are doing, we should allow then to do their job, they know better than us.

Even as some of you guys are here praising Ghana, some of their People are also criticizing their Government for not emulate from Nigeria they way the handle the disease from the beginning

kelvinhilton:
Nigeria will rise again

It’s called a Dream. That’s why u have to sleep to see it. Dream on

can one imagine such

Every country get their own natural disaster. Our own natural disaster is our leaders. We will continue to deal with it for life.

Not a big fan of widespread testing.... just testing for those who show symptoms. Even the tests do not meet the minimum reliability standard.... the reason a person can be tested positive one hour and negative the next. The virus is too new so a lot more time is needed to develop a reliable test. Someone is tested positive... then what?? Emphasis should be placed on prevention .... the symtoms... and how to destroy the virus before it gets into the lungs.

Luvdbyursista:
Great Analysis..Would be glad if I can get a lead to the slurce if these statistics..would need it for research..Thank you

the link is in the first paragraph of the write up:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#c-africa

This is very worrisome...

sammybay2000:
I dont know why we are always negative minded. You cant begin to compare other African countries with Nigeria on what basis. The challenges of each country differs. USA is one of the most powerful country in the world but has the highest casualties. At the initial stage, it could not do massive testing. Lets appreciate the effort of our leaders. This is a problem facing the entire world at the same time, we need to encourage our leaders by been positive minded. Can anybody explain why we have very low casualty. A lot of effort has gone into what you are seeing now. The whole world is surprised at the rate at which Nigerian Govt has been able to control the situation. United Nation came out openly to appreciate the effort of our govt why cant we Nigerians do the same

oga you are not getting what people are agitating.
The government are doing well in terms managing the spread no doubt, but the testing rate is the problem.

Do you know that we could have actually spend the money meant for mass testing two weeks ago, get close to the actual infection rate and the number of people actually infected, isolate those needed to be isolated and by this week people who are free from the virus by their test result are prepared to go about their normal business and the lock down is over the up coming weeks?

The agitation of sensible people is not that the government isn't trying to check the spread of virus, the agitation is that this delay of getting mass testing done will gradually set the Nigerian economy to a stand still.

We so much believe in this prevention is better than cure thing, but it does not apply here.
A better efficient approach should be identification of all infected persons by way of mass testing at this period of lockdown, isolate those who are positive then those who are negative will get back to work with no time.

The corona virus case in Nigeria for now is not that severe with a very low fatality rate compared to that of some countries in the world, we should take advantage of that before things get out of hand, it is very stupid for the government to wait until we start having 800, 1000, 1500 or 2000 mortality per day before they start modalities for mass testing.

I don't know how Nigerians are thinking.

People keep comparing Nigeria to other countries that have done more test believing that the more test equal more infected. As someone said above, if our nfection rate was really high we'd see death clusters.

Our social media is quite powerful.Even people who kill snakes make the front page. If people have family members or friends that present covid-likesymptoms or die from covid-like illness ,I bet you thst news will be all over by now. Someting like tgat cant be covered up.

I don't now people choose to be pessimistic in this trying times. I'm not a fan of the present government, but I would never wish my country bad just because i want to have the last laugh.

The reason why the US has more rate of infections is simply because they have 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.

babytoun:
Test per million ratio shows that nigeria has tested only 24 people per million . This is the third worst in the entire world which only betters the ratio of mozambique and Malawi

Even small Niger Republic has tested 4600

You are suggesting using the entire population as sample size..... That's a logistics nightmare and a complete waste of resource...not to talk of how inefficient it will be to do so....
The NCDC currently posses about 9 testing facility that shud be turning out over a thousand tests daily as against the previous 500.....
The use of intelligence in administration of these test is critical...
So questions like did u come in contact with a confirmed Case?, did u just return from a country with established cases?, are you exhibiting symptoms of the virus?, how long ve u been on lock down.. Bla,bla blah allows for effective administration of test....
Yes the cases maybe more than what the NCDC is reporting but I don't think it's overwhelming yet..... If Nigerians obey this lock down protocols we wud be in d clear in Abt a months time as lock down remains the only control we can use over the virus..
Stay safe

Millz404:
With the way things are done in this country sometimes i think the country is under some kind of curse. They are more interested in embezzling the funds for testing than bother with testing anybody.

People that are making money off the bokoharam crisis.. you think corona will be an exception?

Thank God people are not dropping dead on the streets, i think people are busy infecting others and recovering without even knowing it.That is our saving grace.

Truth is money is god in that country. Everything is centred around making money. Thats why the only sector that works is banking sector and oil sector. Nothing else works .