Managing Director of the Society for Family Health (SFH), Dr. Omokhudu Idogho, has warned that Nigeria and other African nations cannot afford to rest on its oars or be deceived because of the slow increase in the number of Coronavirus infections in the continent.
According to Idogho, in a statement on the COVID-19 situation in Africa, and Nigeria especially, he said, “Africa has defied some of the initial scary projections on the growth path of the pandemic, some of which had suggested that 45 countries will have more than 10,000 cases by this first week of May.
He added, “Reviewing this against the literal doubling of Nigeria’s cases from 1,095 cases as of the 24th April 2020 to 2,017 cases as of 1st May 2020 – this increase within a one-week period, and the ongoing expansion of testing would suggest that we take another look at these projections – rather than the emerging euphoria and complacency that Africa has an alternate pathway for Covid-19 transmission.
“I will strongly suggest an alternate approach based on a cautious and proactive reflection on these numbers as, unfortunately, we are unable to work out where we are on the infection curve,” Idogho said.
