Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 January 2021 The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world, no doubt, is spreading fast, killing faster and easily transmittable compared to the first wave. The rate at which many Nigerians are contracting the virus is beyond imagination as numbers of affected persons has increased drastically within the shortest period. This indicates that people need to continue to take necessary precautions by observing the prescribed non-pharmaceutical guidelines to curtail the spread of the virus. Statistics from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control as of December 17, 2020 showed a total confirmed cases of 76,206, 67,110 discharged and 1,201 deaths. As of January 11, 2021, the statistics showed that 101, 331 persons had been confirmed positive, 80, 491 discharged, while the total number of deaths increased to 1,361. This means about 30 per cent new cases have been confirmed since the outbreak of the second wave and about 12% confirmed dead.