Highlights
The year 2020 was ushered in with a historical novel virus (COVID-19) pandemic in a manner that the world has never witnessed before.
We employ the state of the art analysis to explicate the implications of the lockdown lifting in Nigeria using both analytical and descriptive statistics.
Of the three episodes of COVID-19 in Nigeria, the easing up phases witness the highest cases of the virus with the addition of over 13,000 in just 41 days.
Every day of the easing phase of the lockdown has witnessed an increasing number of cases.
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