EDITORIAL: Our govts have so far failed the coronavirus test
Over 83,000 people across the world have been infected with coronavirus and more than 2,800 people have died from the disease it causes. PHOTO | PIUS UTOMI EKPEI | AFP
On February 27, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization Director General, issued a stern warning to world leaders. No country, he said, should work under the false assumption that the coronavirus will benignly pass by it. Tedros’ warning came as new cases were reported around the world.
Sub-Saharan Africa reported its first case in Nigeria, where an Italian contractor had returned to work in Lagos from Italy. The number of new infections around the world has also overtaken those being reported in mainland China.
