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The Nigerian media was critical in educating, raising awareness, and informing the public during the pandemic. People frequently relied on media information during an epidemic lockdown. They were exposed to the message to form opinions about disease risks and take appropriate actions. As a result, it is crucial to examine media coverage during pandemics such as COVID-19.
About 40% of Nigerians are already nursing mistrust about the COVID-19 vaccine and won’t take drugs;
Just when Nigerians were adjusting to eased restrictions, Coronavirus shows that it’s not yet an afterthought with 138 infected Corpers and a 295 case load hike. In other news, Nigeria met 99% of her FIRS target.
Only one in every seven COVID-19 cases in Lagos have recovered from the disease. The recovery rate is slightly different in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) where only two in every seven cases have recovered from the viral disease
The Federal Ministry of Health has recorded the index case of Coronavirus, on Friday, June 19, DATAPHYTE can confirm. An anonymous source who attended the National Council on Health meeting which held virtually confirmed the information to DATAPHYTE on Tuesday.
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For Today’ Numbers to Ponder, Dataphyte’s prediction that in May, Nigeria would hit 1,885 Cases of the novel Coronavirus was right. That’s the power of data science to forecast. In another brief, Edo State claims to have screened 40,000 Screened, 2310 Violators were arrested during the lockdown. To give healthcare priority in post-Covid-19, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the state will increase the sector’s budget to 20 percent by 2021..
On May 1st, 2020, the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) announced that confirmed cases of coronavirus have reached 2,170, with 351 recoveries and 68 deaths. The new figure is in line with Dataphyte’s predictive analysis that COVID-19 cases would reach 1,885 by May.
Since the first case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) was reported in Lagos on February 27, twelve more states have reported cases in Nigeria. As shown in the visualization below, Cloneshouse and Dataphyte analysed the number of cases in the states over time. Based on a 95% prediction interval, by May 2020, with all current conditions still the same, we estimate the number of cases in Nigeria could reach 1,885.
