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Deputy Chairman, Alliance for Survival of COVID-19 and
Beyond, (ASCAB), Sina Odugbemi, has challenged the Federal
Government to do better in its handling of COVID-19 cases in the
country.

Narrating a personal experience, Odugbemi said he had run a test
and three months after, he was yet to receive the results.

“In the heat of the pandemic, there was a suspicion of somebody
having COVID-19 in my office and the decision was to get to the
nearest hospital and check yourself. And the person tested positive
so there was pandemonium in my office and everybody had to go and
take the test,” he said on Tuesday in an interview on Channels
Television’s Politics Today.

“I was at Ifako center and my sample was taken and sincerely
I’ve taken the test for three months now and there is no result and
if you ask many other Nigerians they will tell you their experience
is not far from that.”

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Nigeria Records 1,244 More COVID-19 Cases, Three Deaths

With a second wave of the pandemic hitting many countries across
the globe including Nigeria, Odugbemi believes that the government
lacks proper preparation to be able to handle the virus.
He believes that compared to other countries, Nigeria’s approach
has been below average.

“Here, we don’t think ahead of time. We don’t anticipate the
capacity of the pandemic. Everyday we count numbers of deaths all
around the world and this has to be very instructive to us as a
nation.

“And I feel that generally, we have scored below average.

“When the pandemic started, we saw a lot of centres springing up
where people could go. But now they have disappeared. We need to up
our game as a people. We need to take this thing very seriously,”
he added.

So far Nigeria has recorded a total of 101,331 cases, while
1,361 have died.

On a positive note, however, 80,491 have been successfully
treated and discharged from isolation centers.

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