Payne Anna, Alfa-Wali Maryam, Adisa Charles
Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, London, UK.
Abia State University Teaching Hospital, Abia, Nigeria.
J Public Health Afr. 2022 Sep 29;13(3):1435. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2022.1435. eCollection 2022 Sep 7.
On March 22, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) pro- claimed the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS- CoV-2 or Covid-19), and the virus has had global impact, with sig- nificant mortality rates observed in high-income countries (HICs) in Europe and the United States (USA). Numerous low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have signifi- cant unmet healthcare demands, and citizens frequently experience the negative repercussions of their inadequate health care systems. Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa with an estimated 200 million inhabitants, is not an exception. With the lessons from the 2014 Ebola pandemic in West African states still vivid, procedures such as temperature checks at international airports and medical and travel history questionnaires were swiftly implemented begin- ning in early February 2020.
2020年3月22日，世界卫生组织（WHO）宣布了严重急性呼吸综合征冠状病毒2（SARS-CoV-2或新冠病毒19），该病毒已产生全球影响，在欧洲和美国的高收入国家（HICs）观察到了显著的死亡率。许多低收入和中等收入国家（LMICs）有大量未得到满足的医疗保健需求，其公民经常经历其不完善医疗保健系统的负面影响。尼日利亚是非洲人口最多的国家，估计有2亿居民，也不例外。鉴于2014年西非国家埃博拉疫情的教训仍历历在目，从2020年2月初开始迅速实施了诸如在国际机场进行体温检测以及医疗和旅行史问卷调查等程序。
