 Let's hear the breakfast and plus CV Africa, we sincerely apologise for the breaking transmission. But we're here with the breakfast and we just quickly run through the concerns with the increase in COVID-19. We have Dr Tini, a member I won't do, who is in the studio with us this morning who shares thoughts and we see what we can do in order to protect ourselves and stop the spread of this virus. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has again won one of possible fifth wave of COVID-19 virus in the country. Given the increase or reappearance in the number of confirmed cases, it is close that about 1,332 cases are recorded in one week. They're therefore called on stage to ramp up testing as it acts Nigerians to embrace safety protocols to cop the spread of the virus. As of July 22nd 2022, Nigeria has recorded no fewer than 260,339 confirmed cases, while 253,566 cases have been successfully discharged. 3,147 lost their lives to complication arising from the virus. As of Friday, the World Health Organization reported that there were over 565 million cases globally out of which over 6.3 million persons lost their lives. About 9,109,181,118 cases had however been confirmed in Africa. Once again, we have a public health practitioner Dr Tini, a member I won't do joining us. I hope I got your name correctly. Good morning. Good morning, Dr Tini. But what does this mean with this increase and all of the statistics? What does this mean for Nigeria and her citizens? It's coming back home to remind us that COVID is here with us and it's probably going to be here for some time and then that there's no reason we should relax our preventive measures. I'm like really pointed out five of the million cases worldwide. Six million, more than six million deaths. And we have given about 20 billion doses of vaccines, still the virus is with us. The Omicron variety strain, it's really the B, A5 strain. It's actually causing the new epidemic. And then we in Nigeria, we choose to put down, you know, our guard. We, we're not social distancing. Vaccines in Nigeria is just 20%. People are not being vaccinated. They abandoned, you know, for interventions. The conversation on our COVID has actually shifted away from the public space. The incident officers move away from governor to nobody now. And rather, if you look at our public space again, we should be talking about health, especially while we're having, you know, muckipolls, Mabok virus, Lasser fever, all of them combining together in the world now. We are not discussing health. What are we discussing? Rather, my religion is better than your own. I want to become this. I want to become that. And then, of course, we see that the public space to fake news, paid news, and all sorts of social media rants. We're not communicating. We're not discussing it. We abandon social distancing. Governments move the way people are not getting vaccinated. And should it come back, it's going to meet a broken health system. And then what do we do in this situation? Well, it's not left to the government and the government to figure out, especially individuals to figure out what they need to do, not to catch the virus. Dr. T, you talked about coming back. Does this mean that, you know, COVID had gone before now? Because, you know, once upon a time, we also saw that countries of the world, including the United Kingdom, had relaxed, you know, restrictions and other paths. And then Niger also followed suit. So was there a time that COVID left? Not really. It's just a time that we refuse to pay attention to it. It was just a time that we abandoned and really, you know, get stuck to our wishful thinking. We don't have the kind of health system they have, but we just look for opportunities. Of course, the COVID gave us a unique opportunity to rethink our health system and actually step up some key preventive measures, you know, like even if we're going to go hand-washing, hygiene, but look around us, look at the health system, look at everything. Nobody's talking about it. So COVID never went away. It's just like saying that has not ever gone away or just gone away. So there's a time of flare-ups and this is one of the flare-ups. And then the fact that the virus is capable of multiple mutations, we don't know the next mutation. People are considering what effects will last a fever and COVID have together. The other question is, what effects will muckypox and COVID have together? So there are a lot of uncharted terrains in this discussion. And the best anybody could do, you know, any country could do is to figure out how to protect its citizens. Of course, we still know that if you vaccinate, don't forget, we have never gone to that herd immunity that we've been shouting about. We've just done 40 percent. We're looking at herd immunity from 50, 60 percent. We've just done 20 percent, 20 percent of Nigeria vaccinated, okay? Fully vaccinated. So we are now, our party are setting an effect. People are not even, the stress is only increasing. It's a tough situation, but we keep talking about it. But at individual level, what we can, the best we can do is to actually, you know, keep those non-physical protocols and hope that we remember those non-physical protocols. All right, Dr. Thuyi. Another one that's been very big is the fact that, you know, in West Africa, some part of West Africa, to be precise, you have Ghana, you know, spin, you know, a dictation. And the World Health Organization has come from the Mabok virus. And so Ghana is very close to Nigeria. And we know that there's been a lot of movement. Now, that's on the one hand. You also have that we're grappling with monkeypox, with Lassa fever. Do our health institution now, do you think that we have what it takes to contain and manage all of this, you know, challenges, challenges that we're faced with at the time? We're not even, we're not even strengthening the auto-marriage malaria, not talk of this cocktail of viruses. And we know, separately, on different occasions, we've pushed that we're going to see more of this virus coming up. We're not going to see less of them. I think the rational thing is for the country to figure how to increase surveillance and then, you know, push for strategic investments in health system that can respond to all these viruses. Of course, you know, climate is changing, you know, and then we're coaching on the terrains of these animals because who are the reservoir of these viruses? And then they also come into our, into our, into our abode, low abode, increase in contact, climate change, neglect of health system, collapse of health system will not build well for any country, you know, with likelihood of a spark of this virus. So the threat is real, and it's challenging, very real and challenging. It can be wishful thinking that if we have Maabok, if we have last time, if we have COVID, if we have monkeypox, that recently, I mean, I said, was yesterday the day for yesterday, the WHO said, this is public health emergency of international concern. That's how they declare the monkeypox after seeing, you know, 16,000, you know, deaths of cases, you know, as it was 16,000 cases all around, all over the world, where they had expected there will be any monkey virus, and where they're seeing more in men, you know, having sex with men, you know, a new dynamism now come from it. How is this virus being transmitted? And the virus can change their mood of transmission. And you have to be that a lot. But if you don't have a system, you don't have a system, you don't have to buy a service for health, if you're trying that sort of strike, you're not doing the search, what are you now respond? Okay. So it's a pit able situation. And such a way that a collapse political system will always give rise to a warped health system. No doubt. If your political system is not working, your health system can work. Okay. And proper politics, good democracy, order, and law are actually prerequisites to driving good health system. So we start by ordering our society. We start by putting the right investment in health. We start by signaling and telling people I'm raising the conversation in the public space on what you should do to to have good health. And Gala is near to us. I can assure you my book is in Nigeria already. With that confirmation from the authorities. I can assure you. Again, what what what what have you confirmed in your type? Because even though now we have genomic laboratory that can do a bit of things, maybe one or two in Nigeria, you only see what is searched for. Okay, so you're saying that you see what is searched for. If you start searching for it, you start doing the panel to look at those values that could be affecting us now. I won't be surprised if you see my book. What's Ghana and Nigeria just named Bona. So it's just a matter of geographical definition. I'm just just don't know geography. They don't know that this is a limit of country. They don't have passports. So just a quick one because we're at a time. Usually the responsive government is that when we COVID, there's always we know that there was a first wave and then we had lockdowns. We've had several lockdowns. What are you thinking now that you have the authorities saying that we probably might just be at the verge of a fit wave? What do you think would be the response of the government? Same story. Issue statement. Count the numbers and then look. How are they going to respond? They don't look. They just you know and then encourage you to wear face masks. Count the numbers. Tell you the story every day. We have moved from government because the government is grappling with a lot of things. Financial challenge, security challenge, educational challenge, so many challenges here and there and COVID will be one of the few things they will be so concerned about. They will be concerned only because it has international dimension and ramifications you know that kind of come back to hurt them. For that they're not. I don't think government will care. So let's move our response to individuals and the community where we can choose deliberately not to expose ourselves to any jams or you know at least deliberate which deliberate choice. You know avoid crowd if you can. You know people the church people say now so that you don't want them to go to church. Well cover your nose, your face mask if you can, wash your hands, raise your hygiene, keep your environment clean and when you fall ill don't forget. Talk to a doctor. All right thank you so much. We have to bring the conversation to an end at this point. We appreciate your time Dr. T member Wondo for being part of the show. Thank you for having me. That's the size of it. We've been talking about the fact that there's an increase in the cases of COVID. Authorities have raised concern and we know that as a country we're grappling with all the issues. I mean there's still malaria. You talk about lack of fever. You also want to talk about the monkeypox and even the threat that it's a threat to us. The outbreak of Mabok virus in Ghana. How the week up? Well it's very dependent enough to take responsibility for our health. Let's be constantly paranoid with you know personal hygiene. Wash your hands, always keep your environment very clean with your nose masks as much as you can to protect yourself and protect every other person around. If you miss that on any part of the conversation it will be all right to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Do subscribe to our YouTube channel. Visit Plus TV Africa and Plus TV Africa Lifestyle. My name is Messi Ibuk. We'll have a fantastic morning. We'll come with the news at nine o'clock. Stay with us.