Members of the contact-tracing team are seen at the Primary Healthcare Centre, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease in Lagos, Nigeria May 7, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
“We are not enough,” said Fadare, an epidemiologist who has battled Ebola and Lassa fever for more than 20 years. The state’s health commissioner, Akin Abayomi, dismissed concerns about the scale of its tracing efforts. Unlike South Korea and Singapore, which used contact tracing apps, Nigeria has had to resort to more labour-intensive methods. Only a quarter of the population uses smartphones.
Such fears can be justified. In Abuja, one man’s neighbours moved out after he was tested. Others suspected of being infected have been told to leave, said Ramatu Abdu-Aguye, head of tracing in the capital.Nigeria’s low testing rates are making the tracers’ job harder, they say. Just over 183,000 tests have been conducted in a country of 200 million, according to the NCDC. A government target announced in April was for 2 million tests by the end of July.
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The story is the same all over the globe; Open up too early by easing lockdown restrictions, pay the human and economic cost of doing so.
..if anything had contributed enormously to the steady rise in Covid'19 cases...the CURFEW...imposed by a clueless government
God help them
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