Now, more than ever, the government must get its decisions spot on. Nigeria is now the third African country with the highest number of coronavirus cases
, behind South Africa and Egypt —20,000 and counting, and many are beginning to question if the government can effectively manage the scourge.
If March and April were months when establishment of testing centres were to be scaled up, May and June should have been the months when tests are massively scaled up. As a matter of fact, Nigeria is a far cry from the two million tests that Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, assured by the end of June. That figure currently stands at little over 125,000 samples.
One other thing we have learnt of ourselves is the increasing negligence of this virus. As days run into weeks and weeks into months, speculations that coronavirus is a sham in Nigeria is growing like wildfire.
Let’s not forget that a lot of people now firmly believe that there is no coronavirus in Nigeria. But can we trust each other, as Nigerians, to be responsible with our activities should restrictions be relaxed further? Think about it, we now realise that we do not have the testing capacity, despite whatever assurance is given, to keep up with any spike in new cases.
I had thought that Director General of Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu’s word that he had rather be “slow and get it right” than “fast and be sorry” would ring well within the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19. If our hopes and prayers for July is a significant level of stability, then we can do better than to worsen community transmission through menacing relaxations.
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