EDITORIAL: China’s COVID-19 surge: Why Nigeria needs to act now!

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EDITORIAL: China’s COVID-19 surge: Why Nigeria needs to act now!
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The details are so staggering that China has censored the daily publication of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

The country’s crematoriums are overwhelmed. As its COVID-19 situation skyrockets, China has, ironically, removed all restrictions for foreign travellers; a policy action shy of a Greek gift. The and many countries are concerned about Beijing’s usual opacity in public health disclosures. WHO’s director of emergencies, Mike Ryan, has emphasised that, “We still do not have complete data.

It is worrying that Nigeria is missing from the list of countries pre-emptively responding to the latest Chinese COVID-19 conundrum. Nigeria stands the risk of being easily exposed with its importers and businessmen flooding China and with the large Chinese presence here.

As in many parts of the world, COVID-19 data are not true reflections of the realities on ground due to many unreported cases. Nigeria is notorious for not keeping records of deaths and their causes, except those that occurred in hospitals. The world has witnessed at least three waves of COVID-19. While some countries carried out aggressive testing to know the depths of infection and transmission, Nigeria struggled to set up a few molecular biological laboratories just for testing.

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