How WHO is supporting Nigeria’s COVID-19 response – Official
Saturday marked exactly one year since medics were summoned to what became the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria.
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The efforts of local and international actors in Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 helped in curtailing a larger spread of the disease, an official of the
Walter Mulomo, the country representative of WHO, said since the beginning of the outbreak in Nigeria about a year ago, the global health agency has been engaging the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the health ministry and several other stakeholders in a multi-sectoral plan to combat the disease and its adverse impacts.
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ANALYSIS: One year after, five gaps in Nigeria’s management of COVID-19
Nigeria recorded its first case of COVID-19 a year ago. 7 min read
It is exactly 12 months since medics were summoned to what became the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Since then, over 155,000 infections have led to more than 1,900 deaths.
While Nigeria, like most African countries, has not suffered from the worst effect of the pandemic, unlike its European and American counterparts, the Nigerian government has made some blunders and faced some challenges in managing the virus. PREMIUM TIMES highlights five of those challenges.
It was a Thursday afternoon on February 27, 2020, when authorities announced that an Italian tested positive for the disease, two days after he flew into the country via a Turkish airline that landed at the Lagos airport.
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