CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTION ON COVID-19
268, Federal Low-cost Estate, Oloje, Ilorin, Kwara State IDISD BOOK PROJECT CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTION Book Title: COVID-19 Pandemic Experience in Kwara State: Lessons For the Future INTRODUCTION The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time. The outbreak was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30th January, 2020 and recognized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11th March, 2020. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the current global pandemic is the first known to emerge as the result of a novel coronavirus. In a little over 3 months, COVID-19 has morphed from a small outbreak to a pandemic, which the WHO deems a public health emergency of international concern and a socioeconomic crisis affecting everyone. Indeed, the virus traveled in a borderless world, and challenged public and private health systems in more th...