Probing impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

*Coronavirus has slashed living condition by two years, reversed trend of people living longer than their parents, grandparents, say experts

However, medical experts are unanimous that the coronavirus pandemic is causing some substantial increase in mortality in Nigeria and populations across the world. They said the pandemic has overwhelmed health systems, leading to increased morbidity and mortality. They said the increase in mortality has the potential to cause a decline in life expectancy in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world.

What is the relationship between lowering life expectancy and COVID-19? The clinical pharmacist said: “Global average life expectancy increased by 5.5 years between 2000 and 2016 , the fastest increase since the 1960s. Those gains reverse the declines during the 1990s when life expectancy fell in Nigeria and Africa because of the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus /Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome epidemic.

What are recommendations on how to improve the life expectancy of Nigerians? The clinical pharmacist said: “There is a school of thought that a one per cent Gross Domestic Product regression will cause a retrogression across society in medical care, infrastructure, and environmental governance, and this could lead to a reduction in the average life expectancy of about 10 days. Efforts must be made to boost GDP of Nigeria for us to experience a continuous increase in life expectancy.

He added: “Of recent, suicide rates have increased in Nigeria and this is not good enough. Talk about deaths from terrorism, all of these must be addressed for life expectancy to increase in Nigeria. In fact, a study published in Daily Mail UK Online revealed the pandemic has knocked nearly two years off the average life expectancy for men and women.Life expectancy in England and Wales had been steadily improving for the last 50 years, before stagnating over the past decade.

Lead researcher Jose Manuel Aburto, of the Department of Sociology at Oxford University, said: “We have provided estimates of life expectancy for 2019 and the first half of 2020, which show that life expectancy dropped a staggering 1.7 and 1.9 years for females and males respectively between those years.

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