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Nigeria, population 200 million, was spared the worst in its first Covid-19 wave that began in February last year. But a second wave has hit hard.
More than half of Nigeria s 131 242 confirmed cases have been logged in the past three months.
Authorities pledged in January to build a new oxygen plant in each of Nigeria s 36 states.
The Lagos businesswoman recalled the horrendous week she spent in the Covid-19 wing of a city public hospital, where the sense of crisis was lifted only briefly by whoops of joy when a patient secured one of the few available tanks of oxygen.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - It was after midnight in Lagos on Oct. 21 when Elisha Sunday said he got a call from his brother Victor’s phone: a stranger told him Victor had been shot dead by soldiers at Lekki Toll Gate.
After a sleepless night, he said he went out to find the body but roads towards the upscale neighbourhood were blocked and he heard shooting so turned back.
Elisha, 24, said he later saw pictures of his 27-year-old brother on Facebook, draped in a Nigerian flag and covered in blood. After that, the trail went cold.
Protesters objecting to police brutality and demanding wide-ranging reforms had held demonstrations across Nigeria for nearly two weeks when witnesses in the Lekki district of Lagos said soldiers and police opened fire on them on Oct. 20.