COVID-19: ‘We may reach disastrous level’ vanguardnews
12 states with one death. Nearly seven days into the second round of the lockdown, however, the cases have continued to rise.
Going by the number of cases and the number of recoveries and death, would you say we are winning the war against coronavirus and flattening the curve? We failed to judiciously utilize the window we had to stop the pandemic from sliding into community-driven transmissions from occurring. We are beginning to record community-driven transmission which means persons who had no history of foreign travel or history of contact with foreign travel returnees are testing positive. That is an evidence of community-driven infection. COVID-19 has a binary fusion of transmission; like from 2 to 4, 4 to 8, 8 to 16 and16 to 32, etc.
Dr. Ehanire has no justification to have introduced discrimination, dissentious disharmony, and acrimony inherent in the Federal Ministry of Health against the much needed collective effort that is required to make sure we win the war against this pandemic. President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigerians should advise the Honourable Minister of Health to rescind his amorphous pact with doctors, nurses and pharmacists.
There are public health strategies we can use in those states to make sure this virus does not spread there. But where it is already thriving, there are also things we can do. Like what the governor of Cross River State is doing. That is very commendable. He is dealing with things that ensure there is no community based transmission in his state; other governors should take a cue from what he has done.I want to applaud Dr Chikwe Iheakweazu, he has shown leadership and competence.
And asymptomatic people can be identified. The danger and the real fuel for community transmission are the asymptomatic persons. They drive it because they share the infection without symptoms so you have no form of suspicion. Again, we need to up our game on hand hygiene. There is a lot of information out there being promoted aggressively, but the materials that will help promote hand hygiene, we may begin to consider the distribution of such materials.
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