joining me is the man leading the fight against coven 1000 there the director general of nigeria's center for disease control to chick with he joins me via skype from nigeria's capital abuja thank you so much for coming on the show so we may have had about 60000 excess deaths here in britain with a population of 67000000 how come nigeria apparently has recorded less than fewer than 4500 deaths or so with 200000000 people i think 2 things i think it is very early to reach any conclusion. that burden both of. disease and death because you know the. the time aspect influences the transmission and also influences but it's what out across the code across the world but there are also many thinks the know whenever you virus is introduced into a population does that interaction between the virus the population of environment and you know that the depths of said need to do it that count 3 kids go unique to nigeria the proportion of that he didn't know up in south africa 4 india do i got so that definite is something happening on the continent i don't know if so far that has limited the budget no bets that we will see

we speak to nigeria's top coronavirus man the director general of nigeria's center for disease control got the trick where it had told us more coming up in today's going underground but 1st u.s. president donald trump may have placed the blame for the current pandemic on communist china.

he speaks of nigeria's top coronavirus man the director general of nigeria's center for disease control but the trick with it was or told us more coming up in today's going on the ground the 1st us president donald trump may have placed the blame for the current pandemic on communist china by coining it the chinese virus but evolutionary epidemiologist and author of big farm. make. suggests that it's actually capitalist greed that catalyzes deadly viruses he joins me now via skype from st paul in minnesota rob welcome to going underground just tell me starting off about how not just big farms make big flu but your previous work near liberal eveleigh suggests that capitalism fostered coronavirus one of the things that we get so programmed down as are the specifics of each of these viruses in terms of their clinical ors and thereby reality and that's all very important but what we've done is we've lost the context in which so.

2 days ago like i said the cases rose to 600 more than 600 cases and yes today the nigeria center for disease control is talking about more than 100 cases and we are talking about a population of 100000000 people while the testing capacity is very very minimal it started with 6 centers in a country of 200000000 people to 6 states and the critical capital territory and then gradually the testing centers increased but we're still talking about minimal presence in most states many states in nigeria don't have testing centers they rely on. sutton state to take samples and of course test these cases and to be to be honest with you helpful teachers here i want it apart from issue of. in adequate personal protective equipment you're also talking about. issues like the lifting restrictions imposed early on to contain the spread of coverage 1000 menu states are lifting such restrictions as we speak and this is a source of concern for many people and i looked up helpful features of thinking probably unless we should just as there are some of this restrictions are put back in place we probably are going to see

well in nigeria here the case is this is very very difficult to put a figure on what we're seeing right now is a rising number of cases for example 2 days ago the nigeria center for disease control has recorded more than 600 actions in a single day which of course tells you got this is the biggest jump in number of infections in meat on the in the country and then daily that was yesterday we have more than 400 cases and this is a country of about 400000000 people white test just in a few 100000. in terms of tests conducted and you also have a weak infrastructure here and we were talking about a government which is trying to economically because of the crush in the presence of all its main source of revenue in this country. thanks very much indeed for that update from abuse on that address reporting. the number of confirmed corona virus infections in the united states has now passed 2000000 but all 50 states have these restrictions and they're in the process of reopening and president donald trump has declared he may resume his political rallies as early as next week thousands of new cases are still being confirmed every day a new hot spots continue to emerge across the country n

nigeria's top coronavirus. the director general of nigeria center disease control but the trick when it was told them all coming up in today's going underground the 1st u.s. president donald trump may have placed the blame for the current pandemic on communist china by coining it the chinese virus but evolutionary epidemiologist and author of big farms make big suggests that it's actually capitalist greed that catalyzes deadly viruses he joins me now via skype from st paul in minnesota rob welcome to going underground just tell me starting off about how not just big films make big flu but your previous work near liberal suggests that capitalism fostered coronavirus one of the things that we get so programmed down is on the specifics of each of these viruses in terms of their clinical ors and thereby reality and that's all very important but what we've done is we've lost the context in which a series of new pathogens have urged the 20 percent in each one of those is tied into use changes or station that's being driven by global capital and now you're not biased because you had career virus you wrote the book before you got it but you contract a drone a virus what is a health care in the united states being l