COVID-19: Nigeria's successes and trajectories
It has been a little over a year since Nigeria recorded its index case of the novel coronavirus on 27 February 2020, in Lagos. Months have gone by, yet the country grapples to contain the pneumonia-like virus which emanated from a local market in Wuhan, China, spreading across 200 countries of the world and killing over 2,048 people in Nigeria, according to the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, the country’s infectious disease agency. As of 29 March 2021, the centre has recorded at least 162,593 tested cases, which represents more than 0.0769 percent of the country’s population of over ...