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Wow, the situation must be very serious there.

You don’t have to defend Tedros just because you hate Trump. They are both failures as far as COVID-19 is concerned. They have both been exposed as bad leaders with blood on their hands.

Tedros, as the leader of the WHO, couldn’t have done a better job if his objective was to ensure that the Corona virus would spread to every country and kill lots of people, while appearing to fight it. He discouraged travel bans at the early stage when they would have bought some much-needed time. He left countries utterly defenseless against the virus by discouraging the use of face-masks despite the success of the Asian countries which use them. People who followed his organization’s advice on how to avoid getting infected “wash your hands and expose your face” kept getting infected because the advice was wrong.

I've always believed that the government should not be allowed to borrow money from foreign entities without first winning an open referendum. If you want to borrow money on my behalf, which I will have to repay when you are long gone, you should have to inform and convince me first.

Xposed2020:
Kindly enlighten commentators on the bolded.
Because from comments above, its obvious 99% did not comprehend before commenting.

The title doesn’t match the contents of the article @ Lalasticlala

Hearing about the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund for the first time. Who runs it?

People who were making a living before the lockdown have been reduced to fighting for grains.

There is a disconnect between the needs of the NCDC and the gifts being sent to them. We need test kits, RNA extraction kits, PPE for healthcare workers, masks for citizens, reagents for the tests, and the equipment and skilled technicians needed to setup Coronavirus testing labs in every major city so that test samples can be processed without delay.

Instead of these, they are sending us ventilators that we don’t yet need. Why? If your condition has deteriorated to the point where you need a ventilator, it has already gone too far because your prognosis is not good. Not allowing patients to deteriorate to that extent should be our priority right now (though it is nice to have more ventilators)

I think the NCDC is not adequately communicating its most urgent needs to defeat the virus and that is why we are receiving many gifts and promises that are not immediately helpful while our more urgent needs are not being met. Trump should send test kits instead. The US produces a lot of them.

Is the shortage of RNA extraction kits responsible for this drop?

Ricchcream:
Nice suggestion, but who is that someone you have in mind?

For me, the ideal candidate has to have been running an organization with many branches all over the country or even the world. Aliko Dangote, with the assistance of an experienced epidemiologist from the South Korea CDC would probably do a way better job than the current NCDC DG. He grasps the magnitude of the problem which is why CACOVID ordered 400,000 test kits under his leadership. We need someone like that.

Perhaps it is time to hand over the NCDC to someone who can scale the organization to the size required to eradicate a fast-moving virus from a country with 190m residents? We are tired of listening to excuses as we waste away at home. Hand it over to someone who has experience with running a very large organization. I don’t even care if the person is an epidemiologist at this point. Just someone who can grasp the scope of the challenge and is willing and able to obtain and effectively utilize the massive resources needed to tackle it. Enough with the failures and excuses.

mrtegation99:
whats south Korea's method pls?

1) They rely heavily on rapid testing and contact tracing. Unlike many countries, which test only people with symptoms, they test anyone who may have been exposed to the virus. If you are sick, they will test you. If you have been exposed to someone who tested positive, they will test you. If they don’t believe that have been exposed but you still want to get tested, they will collect your money and test you, and use the money to make more test kits, but if you test positive, they will return your money. Those who test positive are taken to hospitals if they are very sick or special dormitories if they are not very sick. Those not showing symptoms are advised to stay at home and they will send food and other essentials to your house and check up on you every day. They will also make you download an app that alerts them if you leave your house.

The logic behind their strategy is that the people spreading the virus are the unconfirmed cases. By testing everybody who may have been exposed to the virus, you can identify almost all the people who are infected and isolate them so they can no longer spread the virus. If you can identify all the people who have the virus and isolate them, it can no longer spread.

2) They recommend the wearing of medical face-masks in public, and most South Koreans use high quality KF94 face-masks that are similar to the N95 face-masks used by doctors treating Coronavirus patients. They don’t believe that quality face-masks should be reserved for healthcare professionals. Every South Korean is allowed and encouraged to use the best medical face-masks that they can afford to protect themselves. They produce enough medical masks to protect everybody.

3) They also do other reasonable things that most countries are doing. They encourage washing of hands, physical distancing, and masks, but there is no lockdown. There is no travel ban, but all travelers must stay isolated at home for 14 days under close supervision. Large gatherings are still banned. Schools were closed but are now being reopened. Sport events will be opened, but without crowds on the stands.

South Korea was one of the first countries to be hit massively by COVID-19. At the peak, they had about 800 confirmed cases every day, but since then it has been dropping consistently, to as low as 8 cases a day. And they did it without destroying their economy. They even conducted elections very recently; it went smoothly, and we are yet to see a spike in new cases.

Is the lack of call center capacity by NCDC the reason why they haven’t been able to stop the spread of the virus?

It seems to me to that a shortage of test kits and suitably equipped laboratories, and a reluctance to test more people for fear of “wasting” money or increasing the number of confirmed cases is why we have failed to test and isolate enough people to stop or dramatically reduce the rate at which the virus is spreading.

The fact that our people are still interacting closely with each other without face-masks at hospitals and pharmacies, markets/shops selling food, filling stations, and ATM machines, which are all absolutely essential and cannot be locked down, isn’t helping. Face-masks slow the spread so that testing can catch up.

We will investigate urgently

This was the most important paragraph for me, where he proffered the solution:

Our model should be learning-by-doing while mainstreaming basic common-sense tips such as: mandatory wearing of masks in public, basic hygiene, disinfection of all open markets every early morning and all places of public gatherings, practical social distancing tips, provision of hand washing facilities in public places, production and use of hand sanitizers, gloves, etc. For example, all public transport vehicles—taxi, buses, trains, airplanes might require disinfection of the vehicle before use, and for all passengers to wear masks and with hand sanitizers. Can you imagine the thousands of jobs to be created in producing face masks, hand sanitizers, gloves, etc for 1.3 billion people? But this cannot happen under a lockdown. New opportunities! Everyone wants to live, and Africans will learn and adapt quickly. Staying at home will become a choice, not a compulsion. The slogan could be: “stay at home if you can, or smartly go to work if you must”. We can only defeat the challenge by confronting it, and not by playing the Ostrich only to still confront it the day after.

We have been saying this for some time and it’s nice that more experts are saying it now. But we also need testing, which we can afford if people are working, making money, and paying their taxes instead of sitting at home and waiting for government provided “palliatives”

Test-kits are very important, so I am very grateful to CACOVID for this. It is unfortunate that the govt was ready to lock us down but wasn't ready to spend enough money to get sufficient test kits for a nation with 190m people, and the private sector had to step in to get them.

However, what they are saying about sharing food and the time the test kits will arrive (2 weeks) suggests that we will be under lockdown for a very long time. Instead of following South Korea's proven method of beating the virus, we're sitting at home and wasting away, unnecessarily.

We certainly want to help people.

2cul2care:
All talk and no action which facemask have I seen the government distributing.

Any tailor can make a face-mask. It's easier than making a shirt or a dress. Once the policy is enforced, there will be face-masks everywhere.

The face-masks used by doctors are more effective than the ones that tailors can make, but any mask is better than no mask if used properly.

Watch this video from the Czech Republic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZtEX2-n2Hc

Yes, please. Dominique was given the task last year.

Victornezzar:
Released Nudes

Campaign got heated that it had to involve the Police

Plenty things ooo .....

what?!?

We need to know how many tests they conducted during the 24 hour period in question. I hope this is not a result of slowing down testing again.

People who lied about their travel history will be apprehended and prosecuted as the government is working on 3-4 names and will be published and made scapegoats.

Why are they still going on and on about travel history? It doesn’t matter anymore. The vast majority of those who had COVID-19 before the travel ban would have recovered by now. Those who have it now must have picked it up locally. All they need to focus on now is testing people with symptoms, their contacts, and the contacts of anybody who tests positive. That is all.

Where a person may have traveled to is irrelevant now. All that matters is whether he/she currently has the virus inside his/her body and is capable of spreading it to other people. Once all such people have been isolated, the virus cannot spread.

I remember predicting that the reign of the Coronavirus would come to an end when people started wearing face masks. It is gradually coming to pass. The reason the entire world is in this mess is that the Asians, who produce most face-masks and other personal protection equipment, blocked their manufacturers from exporting them to the rest of the world because they knew that they would be needed to protect their people.

Instead of the West to respond by mobilizing their manufacturers to produce face-masks massively, so that they would be able to protect their people, they started a deceptive campaign to discourage people from using them. The campaign was so effective that people who wore face-masks were mocked and shamed by those who had been brainwashed. People who had face-masks were pressured into giving them away.

Now they grudgingly accept that face-masks are helpful but instead of producing adequate quantities of the quality face-masks that have been proven to be effective - the kind of masks that most Asians are wearing - they are asking people to use less effective home-made masks.

We will get only a small portion of this donation. Last time we got just 20,000 test kits for a country with 190 million people.

If he didn’t predict the Coronavirus, he is definitely not a prophet.
If he could see the future he would surely have seen the virus that would shut down even the greatest countries in the world.

I can’t even watch the video.

redcliff:
Hello Seun, please can you remove my name and email from this list? Regards.

done

They need to keep on testing aggressively and it will surely peak and start dropping

Our government should have started working on plan to reopen Nigeria before the lockdown, but I am glad that it was mentioned in the president’s latest speech. Hope they can start rolling out the plan before people start dying of hunger and crimes motivated by hunger.

Tominix:
If you live in Ogun state or a family live around abule, Mushin boys are looting shops armed with ammunition and beating traders. . . .
seem like they want to continue what they started yesterday

did you see them?