How COVID-19 destroyed social fabric in Lagos, other states

“I am scared, I don’t want to die.”

With mutual suspicion between landlords and their tenants, neighbours now live like strangers to avoid being infected.

Freedom Andy, who resides in Egbeda part of Lagos, told his friends not to visit him for the time being till the issue of coronavirus subsides. A resident of Ibadan, Oyo State, who identified himself as Ebenezer, expressed fear of contracting the virus, noting that the Italian patient might have visited other states as well.

He told The Guardian that many Nigerians, upon hearing the news about the virus in the country, had been looking for hand sanitisers and nose masks to buy.

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