Continents have been plagued by epidemics at various times in history with devastating trails of pain, sorrow and death. Medical science talks about them in nomenclatures that belie their severity. There have been cases of Bubonic Plague, Spanish flu, Russian flu, Asian flu, Influenza, Small pox, Chicken pox, Measles and Cholera.
Some parts of Africa experienced the devastation caused by Ebola and more recently, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) which began its scourge in late 2019, and continues to rage across the world, scarring countries, leaving the total number of global deaths at 1.94 million as of January 11, 2021. And while the world struggles to understand and contain this virus, Nigeria has had her fair share of deaths caused by the same virus.
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