The Nigeria Center for Disease Control has blamed youth for the country’s rapid spread of COVID-19.
This was stated by Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Director-General of the NCDC, during the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja on Thursday, July 2.
He said that young people aged 20 to 40 were responsible for the spread of COVID-19, while the majority of those who succumb to the killer disease were older people aged 50 and above.
He said, “As more people are infected across the world, you would have seen the numbers; it is increasingly obvious that transmission among younger people really, not children, but people aged between 20 and 40 as far as we know, are really driving the spread of this virus, but those that are bearing the brunt of it are people age 50 and above.
“Three out of five people who died from COVID-19 are 50 years and above; so we have to work harder, all of us collectively, to protect our elderly. We are on the verge of opening our airports, we have relaxed intercity travel.”
As of July 2, the nation has 27,110 confirmed cases of coronavirus. 10,801 patients were discharged and 616 fatalities were recorded.
