Resurgence Of COVID-19 Editorial
Though the outbreak of the COVID-19 is traced to 2019, the disease reached a pandemic status in 2020, afflicting hundreds of millions across the world and leading to the millions of deaths, with India, United States of America, Brazil, Italy, Russia, Mexico, Britain, Germany and China, where the disease was first detected in the city of Wuhan, among the worst hit. World-wide, the pandemic has afflicted more than 661 million people and caused over 6.9 miilion deaths.
The coming of vaccines helped a great deal to roll back the scale of devastation of the pandemic across the world, though vaccine hesitancy, due to conspiracy theories, ensured that many people opted to avoid the vaccines, raising the concern that they could become a clog in effort to eradicate the pandemic through achieving herd immunity. And despite the vaccines being available and free of charge till today, not many people are turning up to get tested and vaccinated.
According to reports, after China had recently reversed its zero-COVID-19 policy restrictions, hospitals in major Chinese cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong have filled out with COVID-19 patients. It is believed thar up to 250 million people the world’s most populous nation were infected in the first three weeks of December 2022. Some reports estimate that the disease infects one million and kills 5,000 people in China every day.
As a newspaper, we are concerned that Nigerian authorities have not scaled up counter-measures to contain this threat to the health and wellbeing of her citizens. And judging by the increasing role China and Chinese businessmen are playing in the Nigerian economy, the country could be exposed to the spike in infections from travellers from the country and others.
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