Nigeria reports record infections hours after lockdown was eased

[Victoria33]

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020...ons-hours-lockdown-eased-200505072423557.html

Nigeria has recorded its highest single-day infection rate of COVID-19, the day Africa’s biggest economy began a six-week phase-out period of the emergency lockdown measures.

A total of 245 new cases were confirmed on Monday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 73 of them in the country’s commercial capital Lagos.

Eased the lockdown, more cases but of course, that could be due to being able to test more people. At the nearby medical center here, there are tents where people can go in and be tested.

 

[Theo520]

I think looking at deaths, not broad testing is a better indicator of where they are on the infection curve.

They may have just reached peak deaths in the last week, so it would have been prudent to wait another 1-2 weeks to confirm before opening up.

Nigeria COVID - Coronavirus Statistics - Worldometer