Covid-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review of Nigeria Situation from the Global Perspective between February to June 2020 of the Outbreak

The novel virus was initially observed to be a global health emergency which was later declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the11th of March 2020, pointing to over 118,000 cases of the coronavirus illness in over 110 countries and territories around the world and the sustained risk of further global spread [2,3]. On 18 March 2020, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), stated that the number of cases in Africa was most likely higher than reported, and urged African countries to "wake up" to the threat posed by the virus and invest in emergency preparedness [11]. The Experts further worried about COVID-19 spreading to Africa, due to obvious inadequacies of the healthcare systems in the continent, having problems such as lack of equipment, lack of funding, insufficient training of healthcare workers, and inefficient data transmission [11-13]. [...]due to the adverse implications of COVID-19 on people's health and economy as well as the urgent need for total eradication of the virus, it becomes expedient to assess Nigerian situation from the global perspective owing to the experts view about COVID-19 spreading to Africa, due to obvious inadequacies of the healthcare systems in the continent, also to identify the reason why WHO regional office for Africa predicted that about two hundred thousand deaths might be recorded in Africa if effective measures were not taken by the authorities [14,9].