African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development
African Centre for Leadership, Strategy & Development
Presented at the National Conference on Education Equity, Nicon Luxury Hotels, Abuja, August 8, 2019. This paper is research in progress. It is an initial draft and the ideas in it will be fleshed out after the meeting.
COVID-19 is the name given to the disease associated with Coronavirus that started in Wuhan, China towards the end of 2019. Coronaviruses are viruses that circulate among animals but some of them are known to infect human beings.
From the response of governments across the world so far and guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO), we can delineate three ways to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic:
From the response of governments across the world so far and guidelines from the World Health Organisation (WHO), we can delineate three ways to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic:
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is the directing and co-ordinating authority on international health within the United Nations System.[i]
Nothing in recent history has brought the world to her knees like the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The threat posed by a disease outbreak of this proportion makes any threat from chemical, cyber or nuclear warfare fade in comparison.