Concern is mounting over the relative slow and low rate of testing for coronavirus in Nigeria.
Although it is the most populated country in Africa, the number of tests it has conducted is far lower than others, thus giving experts the impression that the pandemic might have penetrated far more than the government has discovered.
As of Sunday, Egypt, with 3,032 cases had carried out 55,000 tests out of a population of 101,950,919. Ghana, with 834 cases, had tested 60,916 out of its 30,943,761 population.
According to www.worldometers.info, Djibouti, with 846 cases, has tested 8,243 people in the country out of its 985,160 population, while South Africa, with a population of 59,161,220, has recorded 3,158 cases and has carried out 114,711 tests.
Mauritius with 1,271,357 population has recorded 328 cases and has tested 9,755 people of the country.
As of now, however, Nigeria, despite its 205,117,243 population, has recorded 541 cases has tested 7,153 people.
Only on Sunday, the country recorded the largest case a day, with 86 people testing positive for the virus.
The huge number is apparently a product of the pragmatic testing just introduced, involving the decentralization of the process, especially in a state like Lagos, which recorded 70 out of the 86.
