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Exposing Empirical Links between COVID-19 Situation Report and Available Data: The Case of Nigeria

Yusuf F. Zakariya

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2019-20 coronavirus outbreakAfrican most populous nationCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Populationlcsh:MedicineNigeria010501 environmental sciences01 natural sciencesArticle03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineenvironmental factors030212 general & internal medicineeducationIndex case0105 earth and related environmental scienceseducation.field_of_studypandemiclcsh:Rcorrelational studyCOVID-19low number of testingVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Matematikk: 410GeographyCorrelational studyDemography

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Ever since the index case of COVID-19 was announced in Nigeria, the number of confirmed cases has gradually increased to 46,140 (about 4.5% of total confirmed cases in Africa) as the time of writing this article. This seemingly low number of confirmed cases has provoked heated debates among researchers. This cross-sectional study explores the Nigerian COVID-19 report to expose some links between the number of confirmed cases, testing, and some environmental conditions. The findings reveal that there is no state in Nigeria which has up to 12 confirmed cases per 10,000 population. That means, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is less than 0.15% of the population of people across each state in Nigeria. On the flip side, it was revealed that the proportion of samples tested for COVID-19 is low compared to the population. The percentages ranging from less than 0.1% to a maximum of 0.7% of each state population in which 23 states out of the 37 states are within the less than 0.1% range. Furthermore, there is a substantial correlation (&rho

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-10-01Diseases
10.3390/diseases8040038http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diseases8040038