![]() ![]() To ease the threat of food shortages, the government has released huge quantities of grain from the national reserves, and distributed 100 trucks of rice across the country, along with approving conditional cash transfers.īut Aliyu admitted that such assistance was “probably going to be a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed”. Sani Aliyu, Nigeria’s national coordinator of the Covid-19 presidential task force, has said officials were keenly aware of the problems of lockdown in a country where many of the 200m inhabitants need to leave home every day to earn enough for basic subsistence. On Monday Buhari also said a lockdown covering the country’s Lagos and Abuja would be eased from 4 May. What can I do? I know something is very wrong,” he said. I was thinking, what is this? I have been staying at home with my children and wife. Two weeks ago in my area, people were burying, burying. “Four of my neighbours have died, all in the last week, so we know the government are not understanding this thing. Lagos has since become the epicentre of the outbreak in Nigeria with a record of 21,107 confirmed cases and 212 deaths from the virus till date. The first case of COVID-19 in Nigeria was recorded in Lagos on the 27th of February 2020. Khalil Muhammed, a driver in Kano city, said many people were scared. The first wave of Coronavirus started in December 2019 and swept through an unprepared world. These deaths started happening when the lockdown was on the ground,” he said. The pattern emerging widely is that elderly people are dying more. “Pneumonia cases have been rising but that is not being recorded as Covid-19 because they are not testing. Ibrahim Musa, a medical doctor working at a federal hospital in Kano, described a sharp rise in cases of pneumonia over recent weeks, with widespread suspicions by medical personnel that the cases are linked to Covid-19. ![]() Neighbouring Kaduna state said it would extend a quarantine order by another month after the number of cases rose in Kano and the capital Abuja, and banned interstate travel, which it said was a major means of spreading the virus. Autopsies are still being carried out but so far there’s been nothing to suggest that they are linked with Covid-19,” Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, the governor of Kano state, said on Monday.įour members of the Kano government’s Covid-19 taskforce, including the co-chair, have already reportedly contracted the virus. “Over the past week there have been reports of mysterious deaths in our great Kano state and I’m here to assure everyone that investigations are already ongoing. The only test centre in Kano was closed from Wednesday to Sunday for disinfection after an outbreak of the disease there. Kano state has become the centre of the pandemic in northern Nigeria, with 77 confirmed coronavirus cases and one death. On Saturday the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s director, Chikwe Ihekweazu, made an open plea for more kits to expand testing. So far about 10,000 tests have been administered, mainly on people showing symptoms. However, the strategy has been crippled by a lack of equipment. The 87-page report, ‘Between Hunger and the Virus,’ The Economic Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on People Living in Poverty in Lagos, Nigeria, documents how a five-week lockdown, rising. ![]()
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