‘COVID-19: A Global Overview of Pandemics and Nigeria's Experience’
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Date
2021
Authors
Ayeni, A.O
Olusakin, A.M
Badru, F.A
Soneye, A.S.O
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University of Lagos Press and Bookshop Ltd
Abstract
COVID-19 is a new disease, and much of the details of its spread were still under
investigation as at the time of this study. Experimental results however showed the
virus can survive in aerosol for up to three hours. COVID-19 virus spreads
primarily when people are in close contact and one person inhales small droplets
produced by an infected person (symptomatic or not) coughing, sneezing, talking,
or singing. The data used for this paper were based on global pandemics historical
and documented records over the past years. Data were gleaned from existing
literature on pandemics and real time web information on COVID-19 between
February, 2020 and July, 2020. The study concludes that, even though it is
incontrovertible that COVID-19 is real, governments and international donors
should not relent in providing fund and support materials for testing and personal
protective equipment. Also, governments at all levels must provide other mitigating
items for better preparedness; they should be more proactive in their approach in
tackling the pandemic (COVID-19) and future occurrences.
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Scholarly articles
Keywords
COVID-19 , Pandemics , Nigeria , Experiences , Golobal Overview , Social Impact , Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Education
Citation
Ayeni, A. O., A. M. Olusakin, F. A. Badru and A. S. O. Soneye (2021)