ReviewBulletin of the National Research Centre2022
A critical evaluation of Nigeria's response to the first wave of COVID-19.
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- Nigeria's public health response to disease outbreaks: A review of strengths and weaknesses.Journal of public health in Africa · 2024Review
- Train-the-trainers intervention for national capacity building in infection prevention and control for COVID-19 in Nigeria.Heliyon · 2023Article
- National and subnational governance and decision-making processes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria: an empirical analysis.BMJ global health · 2023Article
- Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda.Space and culture : the journal · 2023Article
- Combating the zoonotic trio of Ebola virus disease, Lassa fever, and COVID-19 in Nigeria: a retrospection of the challenges and lessons.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and practices of infection prevention and control among healthcare workers during the COVID 19 pandemic: a descriptive cross-sectional study in three Nigerian states.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Fraud within the Nigerian health system, a double threat for resilience of a health system and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a review.The Pan African medical journal · 2023Review
- SARS-COV-2 antibody responses to AZD1222 vaccination in West Africa.Nature communications · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe first wave of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began when the first index case was reported in Nigeria on the 27th of February 2020, and since then, more than 68,000 cases of the disease were confirmed, with 1173 deaths as of November 30, 2020. MAIN BODY: Daily situation reports from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control spanning February 27-November 30, 2020, were fully considered in this review. Further literature search was performed using PubMed and Google Scholar databases for articles related to response measures adopted by Nigeria. The instantaneous reproduction number (
conclusionNigeria implemented containment and mitigation measures in response to the first wave of COVID-19 and these measures may have contributed to the mild COVID-19 outcome in Nigeria compared to the global trend. However, inadequate PCR testing capacity, lack or suboptimal utilization of epidemic metrics like the virus reproduction number (
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