Opinion: COVID-19: Multiplying Narratives, As Nigeria Moves Towards Herd Immunity, By Jibrin Ibrahim
Some of us will fail and others will succeed. Lockdowns are crumbling, so education about physical distancing and hand washing with soap from enlightened community and religious leaders would be crucial in reducing the infection rate. Informed advice about the dangers of congregations and crowds at social occasions would be very important.
Governments are beginning to be overwhelmed and although they say they have strategies to massively scale up testing, tracking, tracing and isolating infections, it is simply not happening fast enough.
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