A United States, US-trained Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr Abdul-Jhalil Tafawa Balewa, has barred his mind on the easing lock down amid Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria. Dr Balewa said the federal government should order a community lockdown in a bid to tackle the spread of the virus. In this interview with DAILY POST correspondent, Balewa
A United States, US-trained Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr Abdul-Jhalil Tafawa Balewa, has barred his mind on the easing lock down amid Coronavirus pandemic in Nigeria.
God forbids that in another 19 months, we will have a population explosion, so there are so many things wrong with having people stay home when there are no social cushions for them, like food and money to buy essentials. We were not locked down long enough, and if we were, we wouldn’t need to lock down those in the farming communities because they don’t have much interpersonal space reduction. After all, they have a vast expanse of farms, and very few people work there.
The lockdown should not have been eased when it was because our graph is still climbing, we have not reached the peak, and we don’t know when that peak is going to be. It’s only when you get to the peak and start climbing down to when you had deaths comparable to when it just started rising and going to what in Mathematics is called asymptotes almost close to the exergies but not zero that’s when you may ease the lockdown.
In a daily bread environment like ours where most people leave on meager means of day-to-day or salaries and in a case like this hoodlums will have to be locked down. Several things can happen, which include an increase in crime rate but only among the so-called rich, so I think the palliatives should be in two forms; those donating to the government should look towards food. We have severe food insecurity.
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