Opinions of Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Columnist: www.mynigeria.com
If you ask every other country of the world how else they got the novel coronavirus you would most likely hear an Italian contact somewhere in the confession.
Just as the deadly virus began to spread and even douse its hold on Wuhan, it found itself another stronghold in Italy.
According to Al Jazeera, Italy as at Sunday reported 368 new deaths from the coronavirus outbreak as the country's death toll hit 1,809 while the number of positive cases rose to 24,747 from 21,157 on Saturday, the country's civil protection authority said.
It was in the twilight of these occurrences that the Italians remembered that they had businesses doing in other countries and so happened to travel round the world knowing fully well how deadly the flu-like symptoms of the virus was, as they made it a mission to sorely infect African countries.
To be quite honest, Africa was not ready for what hit them even though the dark continent would still be the continent with the least confirmed cases.
With just half of the 54 nation continent reporting 347 cases- an outright contrast to Europe or Italy for instance which had already recorded 368 deaths alone while Africa's case is a combined record of 27 countries with 347 cases.
Nigeria seems to be doing quite well containing the virus to the barest minimum from what seemed to be like a 3 contact case to currently one- the primary index case is actually worth celebrating. Even though confirmed corona cases have now shot up to three in Lagos; many of the citizens are still very lackadaisical about social distancing and marred by greed- culminating in the spike of sanitizer prices on the shelf.
It's rather sad that the Europeans wish us death- Africans as a whole because we apparently survived this plague better than they are. One would think they are wishing us evil as all eyes are on the continent with the fewest number of cases.
For every case reported in the African continent, it's first, major and only contact was initially an Italian before it began to transform into a UK or France contact. Seychelles which is conveniently off the East African coast and in the Indian Ocean was a case that really baffled myself when I learned it reported its index case.
On the left was two weeks ago. On the right is now.
— Brahm (@tayobrahm) March 17, 2020
The entire continent is where italy was 3 weeks ago. In the next 10 days we might have close to 1000 cases.
Nigeria cant keep doing you don't know what you don't know.
Source: @pesa_africa pic.twitter.com/vxfuYBiN8N
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— Ozzy Etomi (@ozzyetomi) March 15, 2020
E don happen! pic.twitter.com/P1ZECVCWCz
— Victor Asemota (@asemota) March 15, 2020
Huhuhuhuhuhu https://t.co/TNGSvS0gui
— Ozzy Etomi (@ozzyetomi) March 17, 2020