We must start from the standpoint that right now that we do not have a clue about the spread of the disease, which is why we need active and coordinated governance to do the epidemiological research and tests to know where we are, so that we can plan rapid action.
As I write this column, the number of affected individuals announced by the National Council for Disease Control is only 51. There are reports, however, that we have tested only a couple of hundred people whose itineraries and health conditions indicate strong possibility of infection. This means we are testing those we think are already infected. This might be because we have very few kits dashed to us by international organisations.
There are lots of governance issues around social distancing that have to be addressed daily and significant resources need to be leveraged to make social distancing work. In Nigeria, we do not have a functional local government system to address these issues. South Korea has been one of the most successful countries in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, on the basis of an elaborate strategy of widespread mapping and testing of the spread of the disease. The country with a population of 51 million today tests 20,000 people daily in 600 centres. It produces 100,000 test kits daily and is today making money from selling the kits. This did not happen by accident.
Imagine a global issue being turned into a local problem by local dimwits?
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