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. 2020 Dec;10(2):020399.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.10.020399.

Nigeria's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic: January to May 2020

Chioma Dan-Nwafor  1 , Chinwe Lucia Ochu  1 , Kelly Elimian  1 , John Oladejo  1 , Elsie Ilori  1 , Chukwuma Umeokonkwo  2   3 , Laura Steinhardt  4 , Ehimario Igumbor  1   5 , John Wagai  6 , Tochi Okwor  1 , Olaolu Aderinola  1 , Nwando Mba  1 , Assad Hassan  1 , Mahmood Dalhat  1   7 , Kola Jinadu  1 , Sikiru Badaru  1 , Chinedu Arinze  1 , Abubakar Jafiya  1 , Yahya Disu  1 , Fatima Saleh  1 , Anwar Abubakar  1 , Celestina Obiekea  1 , Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye  1 , Dhamari Naidoo  6 , Geoffrey Namara  6 , Saleh Muhammad  4 , Oladipupo Ipadeola  4 , Chinenye Ofoegbunam  1 , Oladipo Ogunbode  1 , Charles Akatobi  2 , Matthias Alagi  4 , Rimamdeyati Yashe  1 , Emily Crawford  1 , Oyeladun Okunromade  1 , Everistus Aniaku  1 , Sandra Mba  1 , Emmanuel Agogo  7 , Michael Olugbile  8 , Chibuzo Eneh  1 , Anthony Ahumibe  1 , William Nwachukwu  1 , Priscilla Ibekwe  1 , Ope-Oluwa Adejoro  9 , Winifred Ukponu  10 , Adebola Olayinka  6 , Ifeanyi Okudo  6 , Olusola Aruna  11 , Fatima Yusuf  12 , Morenike Alex-Okoh  12 , Temidayo Fawole  1 , Akeem Alaka  1 , Hassan Muntari  1 , Sebastian Yennan  1 , Rhoda Atteh  1 , Muhammad Balogun  2 , Ndadilnasiya Waziri  2 , Abiodun Ogunniyi  1 , Blessing Ebhodaghe  1 , Virgile Lokossou  13 , Mohammed Abudulaziz  14 , Bimpe Adebiyi  15 , Akin Abayomi  16 , Ismail Abudus-Salam  16 , Sunday Omilabu  17 , Lukman Lawal  18 , Mohammed Kawu  18 , Basheer Muhammad  19 , Aminu Tsanyawa  19 , Festus Soyinka  20 , Tomi Coker  20 , Olaniran Alabi  21 , Tony Joannis  22 , Ibrahim Dalhatu  4 , Mahesh Swaminathan  4 , Babatunde Salako  23 , Ibrahim Abubakar  24 , Braka Fiona  6 , Patrick Nguku  2 , Sani H Aliyu  25 , Chikwe Ihekweazu  1
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Nigeria's public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic: January to May 2020

Chioma Dan-Nwafor et al. J Glob Health. 2020 Dec.
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Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author), and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Photo: Regular data monitoring at Nigeria COVID-19 EOC to guide public health response (Source: Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, used with permission).
Figure 1
Figure 1
Trend of States reporting COVID-19 confirmed cases in Nigeria from Epidemiological Weeks 9, 12, 15, 18 to 22 (May 31, 2020).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Epidemic curve of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases by date of reporting with mitigation strategies implemented in Nigeria, 2020.
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