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COVID-19 and Nigeria: putting the realities in context
International Journal of Infectious DiseasesVol. 95p279–281Published online: April 27, 2020- Chinenyenwa Ohia
- Adeleye S. Bakarey
- Tauseef Ahmad
Cited in Scopus: 53The year 2020 was welcomed by a deadly viral outbreak called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), previously known as 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). COVID-19 was reported from Wuhan, the capital and major business city of Hubei province, China (Wuhan city, 2020). In a very short time, the disease spread across China and cases were reported with an exponential increase in morbidity and mortality rates. The disease has evolved and continues to be a very serious emergency across the globe. On March 11 2020 the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, having met the epidemiological criteria of having infected > 100,000 people in at least 100 countries (Callaway, 2020).
