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The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria
Currently, Nigeria is still at the ascending phase of the COVID-19 curve with no sign of deceleration. Thus, the recent decision by governors of states in northern Nigeria to deport Almajirai (itinerant Islamic school pupils) from their states as part of efforts to contain COVID-19 transmission is l...
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Ubiquity Press
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7413142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32832388 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2990 |
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author | Nwozor, Agaptus Okolie, Charles Okidu, Onjefu Oshewolo, Segun |
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description | Currently, Nigeria is still at the ascending phase of the COVID-19 curve with no sign of deceleration. Thus, the recent decision by governors of states in northern Nigeria to deport Almajirai (itinerant Islamic school pupils) from their states as part of efforts to contain COVID-19 transmission is likely to have a serious backlash. With hundreds of Almajirai testing positive to COVID-19, and millions of others untested, they constitute ubiquitous nodes of transmission. Their deportation has created multiple emigration channels that constitute prospective feeders to covert community transmission. This viewpoint examines this trend within the context of Nigeria’s current [in]capacity to manage the spread of COVID-19 and concludes that greater risks seem to lie ahead unless the government takes stringent containment measures. |
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spelling | pubmed-74131422020-08-21 The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria Nwozor, Agaptus Okolie, Charles Okidu, Onjefu Oshewolo, Segun Ann Glob Health Viewpoint Currently, Nigeria is still at the ascending phase of the COVID-19 curve with no sign of deceleration. Thus, the recent decision by governors of states in northern Nigeria to deport Almajirai (itinerant Islamic school pupils) from their states as part of efforts to contain COVID-19 transmission is likely to have a serious backlash. With hundreds of Almajirai testing positive to COVID-19, and millions of others untested, they constitute ubiquitous nodes of transmission. Their deportation has created multiple emigration channels that constitute prospective feeders to covert community transmission. This viewpoint examines this trend within the context of Nigeria’s current [in]capacity to manage the spread of COVID-19 and concludes that greater risks seem to lie ahead unless the government takes stringent containment measures. Ubiquity Press 2020-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7413142/ /pubmed/32832388 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2990 Text en Copyright: © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Viewpoint Nwozor, Agaptus Okolie, Charles Okidu, Onjefu Oshewolo, Segun The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria |
title | The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria |
title_full | The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria |
title_fullStr | The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria |
title_full_unstemmed | The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria |
title_short | The Looming Dangers of Explosion in Community Transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria |
title_sort | looming dangers of explosion in community transmissions of covid-19 in nigeria |
topic | Viewpoint |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7413142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32832388 http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2990 |
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