What will occur if Buhari loosens up lockdown – Medical specialists

The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has expressed that the nation may encounter a flood in the quantity of contamination of the coronavirus malady if President Muhammadu Buhari loosens up the progressing lockdown in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States.

The clinical body depicted the choice as untimely, including that it can conceivably open more Nigerians to the fatal COVID-19.

President Buhari on Monday declared that by Monday, May 4, the lockdown will be loose in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun.

Be that as it may, the NMA, in an announcement in Abuja, marked by its President, Dr. Francis Faduyile, stated,

“As the incidence of the COVID-19 hits the 2000th mark by this weekend, just seven days after hitting the 1000th mark, it figuratively tilts the epidemiological curve towards an upward spike,” the statement said. More so, the revelation by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that the nation lacks bed spaces in Lagos worsens this frightening scenario. “The confusing situation in Kano is neither unraveled nor resolved. At the same time, some states continue to live in the delusion of zero COVID-19 incidences. The easing of the lockdown even in phases is very premature. Nigeria should learn from her neighbour, Ghana where the same action produced 100 per cent increase in infection rate in just a week.”