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Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by akpumpy: 6:26am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Gabbriell:The National coordinator of the Covid19 presidential committee Dr Aliyu was on channelsTV(Politics today) last night and he confirmed that only about 3000 tests has been carried out( Not even 5000).So it is really a fake news. We are in deep shit ! Thank you 4 Likes |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Dcoy: 6:29am On Apr 13, 2020 |
USA will say over 2million, Ghana 39,7...., but Nigeria always have a round figure always... It's either 4000, or 5000, or 10,000... Na so you dey know audio figure 1 Like |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by sgtponzihater1(m): 6:39am On Apr 13, 2020 |
We have several laboratory scientists and even technicians in Nigeria. Those in final year in the University can even be recruited to beef up testing. All they need is additional training which may be half a day session and they can do run these tests. The billions being donated should actually be shared proportionately to mass testing, as currently we dont know the current toll of the virus on Nigeria. I pray we are not sitting on a time bomb. 1 Like |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by JB4life: 6:42am On Apr 13, 2020 |
This has further exposed the poor attitude of Nigerian leaders to the world of medical laboratory professionals and laboratory testing in Nigeria, aided by the baseless superiority battle against medical laboratory scientists in Nigeria by Nigerian physicians. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by lastround(m): 6:49am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Guk:My brother the whole thing tire me ooo. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by ThierryJay: 6:50am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Guk: The difference is that none of the above diseases you mentioned has the capacity to inundate our healthcare system like CoVID 19. If you allow everybody infected with CoVID 19 to start showing symptoms before you test and treat them, it will get to a point where hundreds or thousands of infected persons will show symptoms at the same time. This will overwhelm our fragile healthcare facilities. So you cannot use measles approach for CoVID 19. Also while asymptomatic, many people will continue to infect others unknowingly which will have devastating impacts as seen in some other countries. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by lebete3000: 6:52am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Seun: I just hope I'm out if this Titanic called Nigeria before it finally founders. Make I prepare ASAP to get my life boat... 1 Like |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Gabbriell: 7:06am On Apr 13, 2020 |
akpumpy: Channels TV document their news very well. They are one of the best..if not the best in the country. So a link to the news or podcast won't do any harm. Reports are made based on credible links..not on "they say 2000 have been tested", "they say 3000, 5000, 10000". Everyone can call figures. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by FlameZ80s(m): 7:19am On Apr 13, 2020 |
They should stop telling lies. They have not tested up to 5000 real Nigerians, they are just making figures dishing us with numbers to loot the funds. Brainless country |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by persius555(m): 7:31am On Apr 13, 2020 |
DZTech: Heads will roll. The knack for the looting of public funds by public servants and politicians who are in cohort If each test cost 10,000naira like they say, are we saying we cannot afford 50 million Naira to test at the least 50,000 people. The lockdown would just amount to a failure |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by ybn(m): 7:38am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Seun: NCDC said it tested only 600 so far....not 5000 |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by chrisagyei: 7:46am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Donpruddy:are you a Ghanaian if i may ask? 1 Like |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by johnmattew: 7:51am On Apr 13, 2020 |
tuzle:at this moment,Nigeria is far better than USA..... testing or no testing,Nigeria isn't experiencing avalanche of people with coronavirus or deaths....thats a mystery secondly,where was American government,when nigerian government where taking precautionary measures to curb coronavirus. at the initial stage?......American president was busy campaigning and calling coronavirus a hoax |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by johnmattew: 7:51am On Apr 13, 2020 |
ybn:na wao...where did u get such data from? |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by johnmattew: 8:03am On Apr 13, 2020 |
hilaryCU:and where did the dude suggest that our income per capita is bigger than Egypt's.....u are the educated illiterate here cos u can't comprehend |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by shogsman(m): 8:06am On Apr 13, 2020 |
The fact that most of you are actually surprised with Nigeria's porous test number is funny to me, most of you just read nsdc epistles and talk but you don't ask questions. 1 Like |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Ijaya123: 8:09am On Apr 13, 2020 |
glowingflame7: No country has ever tested 40,000 in a day. Be reall. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Agboriotejoye(m): 8:12am On Apr 13, 2020 |
tatatar:What do you mean by higher index cases? Over 80% of the cases we've had are imported. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by bandOFhorses: 8:16am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Young man. In early march we were conducting 1500 test PER DAY!.... . Nigeria is a total mess i agree. But get your facts right! |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by executive12: 8:20am On Apr 13, 2020 |
So called giant of Africa. The real giant of Africa is South Africa. Shame on the bigot Buhari and the fools that voted for him. 1 Like |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Agboriotejoye(m): 8:21am On Apr 13, 2020 |
GermanMelania:Ppl have died due to this coronavirus and it was not known. One just happened yesterday in Bida, Niger state. If you have anyone there ask them. The woman coughed till she died. It's after her death they took her sample for testing and they're still awaiting the results. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by executive12: 8:23am On Apr 13, 2020 |
weblord1900: Even if you were to be born in 2099, as long as Nigeria is not restructured or broken up, the country will still be messed up. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by TAYO124: 8:29am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Seun: There is no need to state the obvious, there are much more pressing issues which have not been addressed in Nigeria. Misplaced priority, thousands of Nigerians die from various other diseases combined yet it is only covid 19 we care about though it has not even claimed up to 1000 individuals in Nigeria. Boko haram has killed Thousands, Armed Fulani herdsmen has killed Thousands, daily road traffic accidents kills Thousands , SARS and police/security men kill Hundreds weekly yet all we care about is covid 19 deaths. What a country? 1 Like |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Agboriotejoye(m): 8:31am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Amya: You make a lot of sense |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by GermanMelania: 8:39am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: Lets wait and see results? Not only coro de give cough. Before coro we for say na village people. Like you said this happened in Bida we will hear more of it if and when coro spreads. Just remember the first ekiti people. The "white American" guy was inconclusive. Yet he died Then his naija educated female was negative. But the uneducated driver was positive. I am just saying. That was fishy. Gov makinde fishy. Only him negative in 7 days. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Oyiboman69: 8:43am On Apr 13, 2020 |
babytoun:It is better than going on a Radom and reckless way of testing,there bye concluding that every ailments in the country is covid19.they will start trowing anyone who have high temperature, cough,malaria and other symptoms into a van and taking to the place with the real virus without proper ascertainment. This way is better |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by macjireh: 8:46am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Seun:a lot of people who were negative became positive after d test.... is DAT wat u want? |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Agboriotejoye(m): 8:49am On Apr 13, 2020 |
GermanMelania:Our capacity for this thing is very limited. The testing we're talking about, at first we were using reagents which means it can only be done in a lab. Now we're using those donated by the Chinese who have been a culprit in this mess. I just suppose the weather and our exposure to chloroquine as kids is our deal breaker and of course relatively young population. But in terms of management, we're lagging far behind |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by babytoun: 8:58am On Apr 13, 2020 |
jaxxy: What is the essence of lockdown if we cant test properly and quickly so that those already infected can be isolated .? Only God knows how things will look like in 3 weeks time |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by GermanMelania: 9:04am On Apr 13, 2020 |
Agboriotejoye: . Even if we do not test. Take a look at nursing homes in. The u.s. sometimes 30+ people died. That is a cluster. We should see that in nigeria. Without testing. It won't take 10 years. But weeks. Trump touted chloroquine based on his interests. Also they think it only works if taken in the early stages. Maybe we have some kind of immunity. I do not think som i honestly don't know what is going on. Other than we are not seeing cluster deaths. Lets hear that 30 older meat men/women at 1 market all got sick and died. Then we have reasons to be very afraid. We haven't even had a bunch of old prominent people die. Remember we only have about 500 ventilators. Mostly in lagos abd even 1 in 2 people put on a ventilator will die. But cultures differ. Data out of china is different from italy that has an aging population and both are different from u.s data. |
Re: COVID-19 Testing In South Africa & Other African Countries by Seun(m): 9:07am On Apr 13, 2020 |
macjireh:If we feel that the test-kits may be contaminated, we can just test them. The Coronavirus has not been reported to last longer than a few days on any surface, so by now any virus on those test kits would have been inactivated. If we wish, we can sterilize them with cheap UV sterilizers. 4 Likes 3 Shares |
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