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#SecondWave: Nigerians Lament Coronavirus Resurgence

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4 years ago

Dec 21, 2020.

Second Wave

Thousands of Nigerians have taken to social media to bemoan the resurgence of the novel coronavirus which has consequently crippled social and economic activities around the world during the yuletide season.

As earlier reported by Eko Hot Blog, the novel coronavirus, otherwise referred to as COVID-19 has been the running theme in the year 2020, killing no less that 1.7 million people across the globe.

As a means of containing the spread of the virus which has defied every known medical remedy, several governments had initiated lockdown restrictions to limit human interaction which has been proven to exponentially spread the virus.

However, with the consequent decline of the number of recorded cases, the Nigerian government moved to initiate a phased easing of lockdown restrictions to enable the resumption of economic activities as well as other social interactions.

In the wake of the resurgence of the deadly pathogen, Boss Mustapha, Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 stressed that the country is at risk of losing not only the gains from the hard work of the last nine months but also the lives of citizens.

“We are in a potentially difficult phase of the COVID-19 resurgence. Accessing the hope offered by the arrival of the vaccine is still some time ahead,” he said.

In what will no doubt lead to a very quiet and unusual yuletide season, Nigerians have taken to social media to lament the return of the lethal coronavirus at a time many people had started to dust up their dancing shoes.

Hashtagged #secondwave, below are some of the tweets.

Can our leaders suspend this two weeks ultimatum for NIMC NIN already! There’s a new strain of Coronavirus & international flights are still operating. Let’s get our priorities right for once. #secondwave isn’t a joke, you all should stay safe this yuletide.

— Sammy Sammy (@scad_official) December 21, 2020

Second lockdown,I haven’t finished loosing the weight I gained during the first lockdown mpo,#secondwave #quarantine pic.twitter.com/Rfd6lggpbt

— NurseKuubabe (@Kukua41717778) December 16, 2020

The devil after creating a stronger strain as soon as vaccine was about to launch #secondwave pic.twitter.com/Ojv2mfbaQO

— Deepash Shukla (@sab_mein_expert) December 21, 2020

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