The Daily Beast | May 10, 2021
But that doesn’t mean COVID isn’t coming for Nigeria and other African countries—it might just mean it hasn’t gotten there yet. “I see raging COVID-19 fires breaking out across the world in the coming weeks and months,” Lawrence Gostin, a Georgetown University global health expert, told The Daily Beast. “And I am most concerned about Africa.”
“Nigeria is actually quite vulnerable,” Ngozi Erondu, a senior scholar at Georgetown University’s O’ Neil Institute, told The Daily Beast. “It has a lot of similarities to India.”