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Clearly ncdc hasn't been updated on that . Just the way NCDC reports deaths before states officially do.

The eye has a communication with the nasal cavity so it could be.

Investnow2017:
Ignorance? Guess not. For me it is sheer stupidity. Ignorance would suggest that the blacks do not know Covid-19 is dangerous and the need to adhere to safety measures put in place. I don't think the blacks are ignorant of the fact that there is a ravaging pandemic.

What is at play is a situation where though they are aware but chose to live in self denial and thus live recklessly. That is STUPIDITY. Can it happen in Nigeria? The increasing voices screaming that the pandemic is a scam, it is audio are so loud here that they offend the sensibility of those who use their head. The game is not over yet, the world after all tallied the highest number of new cases in any 24hr yesterday!
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Well said bro. It's not just here.On twitter I happened to check up on some countries covid updates and I was shocked at the comments, not different from what's happening here and other countries of the world. I guess we're just tired of covid overall

senatordave1:
Rivers and fct have permanently ly displaced kano.
By the way,I think the number of discharge cases are wrongly reported or under counted. We had 2592 total recoveries.borno had 135 while lagos recorded 29.how come it is not reflecting? Ncdc should continue losing credibility

They probably haven't been updated on discharged cases. Now some things aren't uniform again. Ncdc announces deaths before states sometimes

Investnow2017:
With more and more countries reporting new higher figures daily and others that had flatten their curves somewhat, it would seem this virus has come to stay. Skimming through reported cases, I find that the following countries are still battling though many are already working around it:
Brazil 24,151
Qatar 1,993
India 7,300
Pakistan 2,801
Bangladesh 2,523
Iraq 322
Oman 811
Armenia 460
DR Congo 173
Kenya 146
Equatorial Guinea 263
Ethiopia 137
Nepal 170
Haiti 146
Bolivia 619
Argentina 769
Mexico 3,455
South Africa 1,468
Malawi 102
Philippines 539
Egypt 1,127
Gabon 112
Guinea 278
Colombia 1,127
Chile 4,654
Peru 5,874

Iran, Singapore, Sweden, Djibouti etc are recording astonishing breakouts leading to constant reviewing of their containment measures. No nation can sustain a prolonged lock down. We just have to chart a way to live around the contagion.

Which nation do you think has the highest ratio of death to population? Most will think it is the US. Nah. San Marino, Belgium, UK, fall into that category thus far.

We really need that vaccine

If only they could be truly free .

Gilbertase:
It happened to me on 16 May, and was the ONLY symptom. Went for a test the next day and it came back positive as i had expected, cos i have never had Anosmia in my 35yrs on planet earth. Got my sense of smell back one week after without any medication aside my normal high strength vit c supplement i take daily. Isolated myself from family since then. No one else has any symptoms. Will retake the test by Sunday, and i'm confident it will be negative. Most people already have or had covid and have recovered without knowing. I already knew sha, even before the test.

Thanks for sharing. Naysayers will come and ask for name and pictures and people who know you

Then you should ask why they still record 20k daily cases or is it snowy all round in the US
In case you don't know Nigeria and US aren't the only countries with Covid

So according to nairaland bello doesn't want to cash out from the scam . Funny people

DanEmakoji:
How about Kogi?

since they're denying, they'll probably not send samples for testing

IamYourNeighbor:
Maybe schools won't resume this year then, it could even extend till next year because cases increase by the HUNDREDS !

Maybe we should all cower and hide in our comfort zone until the pandemic becomes annihilated to it's barest minimum !

Hear me out schools will reopen, just not now. When it's okay. The sheer fact that community spread is underway and Nigeria seems clueless with this thing is what doesn't give confidence. By now most public places out to have been disinfectant but naahh there will be a task force for that.

I'm a student too and I'm honestly tired of home at this point and I'm willing to resume but when it's safe to do so. I know we can't wait till a Vaccine surfaces Cos that could take ages but also we don't want to give the virus free hand in our schools.

Not safe at all. Only hope is for infection rate to go reduce to the lowest minimum or possibly a vaccine/cure

Tominay:
Wow... That's my state Governors work... Broadly speaking if the test is being carried out in the state it would have been better but I learnt that it was in Abuja FCT definately the should record the cases for FCT and not Kogi because while the so said victims where still at FMC in lokoja there's nothing like corona virus is it between their way to Abuja that the man contacted the virus

According to ncdc DG, since they came from and made contacts in kogi therefore it's kogi's confirmed case.

cheango:
Mad educated illiterate are more than uneducated illiterate... You believe coronavirus of USA of over 2million cases but you don't believe 8000 cases of Nigeria

yet they keep comparing Nigeria to those countries

Kobojunkie:
For those thinking Nigerians may have attained herd immunity or will be doing so sometime soon, na lie!

How else would they continue saying it's just malaria

Incoming corona conspiracy comments

Investnow2017:
What strikes in all the responses is the question: WHY ARE PEOPLE HESITANT IN CALLING NCDC EVEN WHEN THEY STRONGLY SUSPECT THAT THEY MIGHT ALREADY HAVE THE CORONAVIRUS

That's one of the things the ncdc DG mentioned yesterday; people are not coming forward for testing. We don't believe in anything in this country

It's obvious people don't understand the situation right now. Where were they getting the idea that schools were opening soon when there was consistent increase in cases

johnmattew:
churches,schools,owambe etc won't open till vaccine is out

we can't wait that long

martineverest:
if care is not taken,second wave of infection will occur......Nigerians need to believe there is corona in naija

are we through the first wave?

PhantomXcess:
Let me give you guys contexts.

Ebonyi Governor during a live broadcast stated that all the Covid-19 cases they have recorded so far has not shown even a symptom.

In a context, this means that they(those that tested positive) wouldn't necessarily consider themselves sick suggesting the virus isn't as deadly as promoted by foreign media. Also remember the above statement was recently made and the first cases were almost a month ago.

Another context is how factual reports during the early days revealed that test kits were infected or contaminated with the virus itself. Did we dump the kits and got new ones or did we continue to use them?

Another context is that the above context suggests that Stay-At-Home and Lockdown orders were not necessary or effective. This can be proven by the number of cases rising in most locked down states.
Something to note is, Lagos locked down to curb spread, but later opened the market at periodic times for instance, the 10am to 2pm market hours. Scientifically, you would want to reduce the number of people going to the market at one time but a 4 hour market schedule compels thousands if not millions of people to visit at the same time so they can buy before closure thereby making the entire schedule "peak hours".
This increases the risk of spread as everyone is out at the same time and contact tracing will even be harder to achieve. If the market never closed, people will follow their routine market days and time and that would reduce the number of people in a market at a time. I know this because i never go to the local foodstuff market during peak hours(evening when everyone is back from work).

Another context is that if Lagos cases are true, there should be hospitalizations or isolation of these cases. Isolating over 3k people require serious skilled man power ranging from medics to security personnel. And I don't think Lagos has such capabilities and if they did, we would have seen or heard about it in dynamic ways.
Also think about this, testing centers receive tests samples from either suspected case walk-ins or from medical stations, so this would mean that for every case tested positive, there will be a team sent to isolate the case. You would know if this is happening and i haven't seen, maybe someone can show pointers.

So, are the positive cases individuals being informed and are they being isolated properly? Reports from New York and some other US states revealed that most deaths and positive cases were coming from cases in nursing homes and people who stayed at home.
Some of those reports revealed that health authorities instructed that these positive cases be put in nursing homes with negative cases but people with other serious health issues.
Some reports showed also that the federal funding structure for fighting the pandemic incentivized hospitals to allow for high mortality rates. In plain words; Hospitals get $$ when they test for a case, $$$ increases when they confirm a positive case, then more $$$$ when they hospitalize a case, then even much more $$$$$ when the case gets serious enough to use a ventilator, then very much much more $$$$$$ when a positive case individual dies. How do you fight a pandemic with such a model?
There were widespread reports that people stopped going to hospitals which caused some hospitals to furlough workers, people are scared to go get a test because they heard that positive cases were not being treated until it gets worse so hospitals can make more money, secrecy everywhere and social media taking down anything going against the fear narrative.

Now, while i sincerely believe the NCDC numbers are close to reality, i don't believe the measures put in place to tackle this virus are necessarily effective. In short, i believe more resources should have been focused on building faster test kits or test models. And i also believe clinical trials should have started long ago to determine which drugs can treat or cure the virus.

We sometimes underestimate the survival push of man and believe that placing rules and laws and enforcing them is enough to run a state properly. We have to stop playing and solve this issue on all fronts. How much will an international body give us that the government are willing to mess up the economy for? A bird at hand is the only bird o, nothing dey bush! I repeat, nothing dey bush!

The country should fully open back up SAFELY. But we should never make the mistake of jeopardizing our economy to look good in the eyes of the international community, they don't live here, we do. Their governments are bailing out their businesses with trillions of $$, we are not.

Lastly, it is foolish to try to make a governor look bad by saying he's playing with the health of his people when Nigeria is a country that its people never play with death. If people were dying in unusual numbers in Kogi, social media is not censored there, people will raise alarms all over. If Kogi truly don't have their health affairs in order, someone or some people within the government or healthcare will have spoken up. I cannot possibly believe that all of a sudden, PDP and APC members in the state are working together to save the governor's reputation on his decision especially when the health decisions are made by the health experts in the state.

Remember my first sentence; Ebonyi said their positive cases are yet to show a symptom since they were confirmed positive.

You nailed it bro. I don't know what plan the government has for covid in the country when now all it seems they're talking about is reopening

andrewtosin:
Like I don't understand...
Russia is another country we should look into. Are people dying on the streets of Russia? Do you know that Nigeria's fatality is worse than Russia's? I'm sure if we were Russian citizens we would be unserious thereby saying all trash and hogwash bla bla bla.
I don't really know what is wrong with our people

or do they think covid just kills your battery just like that you're dead

If this is true then we have it to them for a well schemed scam . All hail Nigerian government . BTW whose picture in particular are you looking for

Lorazepam:
Smh. Someone in my neighbourhood even died from covid 19 recently , and I personally know not less than 6 people that have been infected, of which two are currently in isolation centres in Lagos, while the rest have recovered.

I don't know why people are always looking for those with the illness. Most people that have the illness dont even go about broadcasting it to avoid stigmatisation.

Till it hits home some Nigerians won't believe this thing. They've been many testimonies from people who have recovered but nahh FG was waiting for covid to loot in 2020

Before now did you ask if people knew the victims of bomb blasts Or accidents? How about robberies?

I get it you don't believe the figures for some reason but can't explain why you think it's false. Well personally I don't know anybody but I don't even know many people to start with.

Still testing a bit above 1000 per day? . I'm beginning to feel the PTF and this country at large are getting clueless about this thing . They should explain why all this chatter about opening up when it doesn't seem like things have stabilized. 1400 tests yielded 380+ ? How far behind the curve are we . What's the point of the daily briefings if important details aren't provided pertaining the figures? Why are states not saying anything also . I'm finding it hard to root for the fight against covid in Nigeria if we're not serious about it

This has gotten ridiculous . How then did ncdc conduct test in kogi state? Why do we make things so difficult in this country

Austine1213:
If we didnt lockdown we could have been like england

We will peak around july because of winter season


We have tested ove 600k,

But isn't it concerning that you're recording more cases now with the eased lockdown that during the lockdown? Or I'm missing the big picture? Cos I know Nigeria and other countries would kill to carry out this much tests but with reduced infection rates

delvzy:
Now this has concluded my thought of the PTF and NCDC in fighting this covid-19.
My question is why has adequate isolation centres not being establish.
You don't need to start building foundation here and there.
Ordinary partitioning cubicle with a proper laid out plan but the designated professional can do a lot of good.
The problem is they're too stubborn to listen to the right people.

That is up to the states not PTF. Their job is to guide and assist while states are in charge of health security.

nexta007:
Lagos is the only state doing real testing and follow ups. My concern is with the North. Why is the numbers going down especially in Kano? Are the three testing centers really working or people no longer go for testing?

Who knows . They stopped giving us breakdown of tests

chukasson:
how can we test less Dan 1000 sample in a day and return back 389 positive cases....Germany tested 1745, and returned only 10 positives last three weeks....England tested 1048, and returned only 4 positives this week....y is our own here different....they just keep boosting the figures....pls NCDC, stop deceiving us.....

Funny you think we have gotten to the stage of UK and Germany. Clearly those countries have reduced new infections ie flattened their curves which Nigeria is nowhere near due to our low testing as usual.