Coronavirus: Take Extra Measure To Prevent Outbreak, Experts Tell FG

Experts in the housing industry have cautioned the Federal Government to put in place adequate measures to prevent the outbreak of coronavirus, warning that the impact would be disastrous on the nation in the face of its filthy surroundings.
The Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, NIESV, which raised the alert expressed apprehension that the nation’s environment was vulnerable to the killer disease, that has sent over 1, 900 people to the great beyond since eruption in China.
Speaking at its 2020 Council meeting in Abuja, President of NIESV, ESV. Rowland Abonta, insisted that the government and other stakeholders in the health sector must build synergy to humanly and scientifically block every possible transit points to avert coronavarus slipping into the country.
ESV. Abonta, while emphasising on the housing crisis which according to him led to the growing number of people without homes, said the “Crisis extends to health challenges when people are not living in a decent environment at all. He pointed out that the crisis in health sector, we thank God that the recent happenings in other countries have not gotten to us.
“If coronavirus gets to Nigeria, the volume of the impact will be so high because of the way we live. Ordinary cholera you will bear witness that once one is reported in a particular state or town, it has a multiplying effect.