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Review
. 2020 Dec;10(2):020379.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020379.

Nigeria, COVID-19 and the dearth of health workers

Oluwafemi Temitayo Oyadiran  1 , Luther Agbonyegbeni Agaga  1 , Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi  2 , Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno 3rd  3
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Review

Nigeria, COVID-19 and the dearth of health workers

Oluwafemi Temitayo Oyadiran et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.
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Competing interests: All authors completed the ICMJE conflicts of interest form, available upon request from the corresponding author, and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Photo: Healthcare workers in front on a COVID-19 isolation centre in Lagosrom. From: https://guardian.ng/news/covid-19-lagos-discharges-47-nigerians-9-foreigners/ (copyright free).
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