The objective of this study was to examine the survival rate of COVID-19 patients in Nigeria using the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) forecasting approach. The source of the data used for this study was the secondary data obtained from the daily publication/report of the ...
Health systems, human resources and supply chain have been stretched thereby posing challenges in managing the outbreak [1]. Locally, COVID-19 cases in Nigeria as at the time of writing this report stood at 23,298 cases, 8,253 treated and discharged and 554 deaths [2]. While the disease...
A few examples: in Nigeria, the United Nations country team has contributed $2 million to procure essential medical supplies, including 50 ventilators that will double the national reserves, personal protective equipment, 30,000 test kits and five ambulances with surveillance equipment; in Kenya, the...
653 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Nigeria on Saturday, July 18 as confirmed by theNigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). A breakdown of the new cases is as follows; Lagos-115, Kwara-85, Enugu-80, FCT-78, Rivers-36, Ondo-35, Oyo-30, Katsina-28, Kaduna-19, Abia-1...
LAGOS, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The number of people in Nigeria who have tested positive to COVID-19 has risen to 81, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said Friday night. In an update to the nation, the NCDC said there are currently 81 confirmed cases in the country, 52 of...
The 55 contributing journalists, who are alumni of the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s training programmes, are from 26 countries including Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Romania and the Philippines. Their insights illustrate the reality of how journalism outside of North America and Western Europe is be...
transport; outlawing all mass gathering events; overnight curfew; and nationwide lockdowns [68,69,70,71]. Contact tracing, quarantine, and isolation of confirmed COVID-19 cases were also implemented to minimize the spread of infection in South Africa, Uganda, Rwanda, and Nigeria [66,71,72]...
in Africa, South Asia and Latin America (Table3): seven surveys in low-income countries (Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Uganda), five surveys in lower-middle-income countries (India, Nepal, Nigeria and Pakistan) and one in an upper-middle-income country (Colombia). We ...
In a presidential broadcast late Monday, Buhari said for the past four weeks, most parts of Nigeria have been under either federal government or state government lockdowns, which have contributed to the slowing down of the spread of COVID-19 in our country. ...
We see that work mobility declines in all countries after mid-March, with a sharp drop in most cases (or a more progressive trends in some countries such as Kenya, Nigeria and Mexico). Note that different rates of change in mobility reflect several factors, including the timing and ...