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Tackling the resurgence of COVID-19
Published 21 January 2021
The World Health Organisation has declared that countries in Europe and America are already experiencing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and urged governments of different countries to put structures in place to curb the virus.
In Nigeria, the country is beginning to experience a surge in COVID-19 cases. More than 2,000 cases were recorded between November and mid-December. The number has since increased since the beginning of the new year. This, experts said, might require an enforcement of citizen’s compliance to COVID-19 protocols.
The Federal Government has warned that the country stands the risk of not just losing the gains from the hard work of the last nine months, but also losing the precious lives of her citizens.
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During the COVID-19 lockdown that lasted for over five months in Nigeria, a lot of Nigerians particularly the vulnerable were unable to access health centres. The ICIR’s NIYI OYEDEJI reports on how people living with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) battled for survival during the lockdown.
ON April 16, 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria, pregnant Hauwah Abdulkareem, 34, a resident of Ilorin, who lives with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) approached the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) while she was suffering from the vaso-occlusive crisis.
The mother of two said she was astonished when she got to the UITH and was told to go back home, although she held a referral form from a professional hematologist, she was told that her condition was not an emergency case
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that countries in Europe and America are already experiencing the second wave of the COVOD-19 pandemic and urge