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But a professor of virology, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, lamented the failure of many states to report COVID-19 cases to the NCDC.
“How many individuals even go to the hospitals when they are sick? When you look at the data released by the NCDC, you see that this amount of outbound passengers test positive, that means if they didn’t make the decision to travel out of the country, we would not have known they were positive and what happens? They would have infected other individuals.
He said, “In the first instance, based on what is known presently, transmission of COVID-19 is primarily occurring from individual who have symptoms, and can also occur just before they develop symptoms, when they are in close proximity to others for prolonged periods of time. He said, “This is wrong and state governments are to be blamed. We are in a dangerous situation and then you find out states have stopped community testing which means we do not even have the true picture of what is going on. This is terrible and it is putting us in a precarious situation.”
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