The Impact of the First and Second Waves of COVID‐19 Pandemic in Nigeria

Abstract

In December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) received a report on the clusters of pneumonia cases of an unidentified cause in the city of Wuhan, Hubei Province of China (Cao et al., 2020). This was subsequently identified as a novel strain of Coronavirus (sars-cov-2) as the causative agent, by the Chinese authorities (WHO, 2020). However, on 30 January 2020, Coronavirus otherwise referred to as COVID-19 was declared a Public Health Emergency of international concern by the Director General of the WHO. This declaration was done in consultation with the International Health Regulation Committee. COVID-19 was later characterized as a pandemic on the 11 March 2020 (WHO, 2020). COVID-19 was reported to have gradually spread from one continent to another and from one country to the other. COVID-19 has since become a global health concern