Implication Of Omicron Variant “Red-listing” Of Nigeria By Uk Government On Nigeria Citizens (Case Study Of Public Perception)

Implication Of Omicron Variant “Red-listing” Of Nigeria By Uk Government On Nigeria Citizens (Case Study Of Public Perception)

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

The globe was rocked by a epidemic of severe respiratory sickness known as Covid- 19. The viral infection is snappily spreading over the world. Droplet transmission, contact with an infected case, and contact with defiled fomites are all ways for the contagion to spread. After a cluster of pneumonia outbreaks was reported in late December 2019 from Wuhan, China, the illness was first linked. Using next- generation sequencing technologies, a new mortal coronavirus( HCoV) was insulated from these cases, linked as a beta coronavirus, and tentatively called 2019 new nimbus contagion( 2019- nCoV). The contagion was called” severe acute respiratory pattern coronavirus”( SARS- CoV2) by the International Committee on Virus Taxonomy on February 11, 2020, and COVID- 19 by the World Health Organization( Esther, 2012).

The outbreak of fatal respiratory ails in Wuhan, China urged enterprise that SARS- CoV2 was a laboratory- manipulated contagion. still, grounded on the RBD on the SARS- CoV2, a study published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020 by( Akanni, 2020) concluded that SARS- CoV2 isn’t a laboratory- manipulated contagion. SARS- CoV- 2 possesses an RBD that binds to ACE2 in humans, ferrets, pussycats, and other creatures with analogous receptors. According to WHO, coronaviruses are a order of contagions that beget ails ranging from the common cold wave to more serious ails including severe acute respiratory pattern( SARS) and Middle East respiratory pattern( MERS)( 2019). It was originally passed down from creatures to humans. Several coronaviruses that haven’t yet infected people are circulating in creatures. The spread of these infections in Nigeria has put the government in a bind. As a result, the government took extraordinary way and created legislation taking all persons and sectors, including companies, to misbehave with the internationally stated Covid- 19 regulations or face legal consequences. South Africa, still, just a time after the nimbus contagion epidemic, reported to the World Health Organization the discovery of a new SARS- CoV- 2 strain,B.1.1.529( WHO).B.1.1.529 was originally discovered in samples taken in Botswana on November 11, 2021, and in South Africa on November 14, 2021. Since also, South Africa has discoveredB.1.1.529 in samples taken on November 8, 2021. The first prevalence ofB.1.1.529 was reported in the United States on December 1, 2021, in a person returning from a trip to South Africa( HDRS, 2021). On December 2, 2021, a alternate case was reported in an individual with no previous overseas trip history who also attended a conference in the days leading up to symptom launch. In addition to Europe, the Omicron variation has been set up in trip- related cases in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. individualities without a history of trip to southern Africa have been proved in a many nations, including the United States. The WHO designated Omicron as a VOC grounded on epidemiological substantiation showing a swell in ails in South Africa in recent weeks, coinciding with Omicron discovery. Omicron has a number of intimidating shaft protein changes, some of which have been linked to lower perceptivity to being monoclonal antibody treatments or reduced neutralization by convalescent and vaccinee sera in other variations( HDRS, 2021). Due to enterprises” about immunological elusion and conceivably lesser transmisibility compared to the Delta variation,” the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control designated this variant as a VOC. 4 The US Department of Health and Human Services formed the SARS- CoV- 2 Interagency Group( SIG), which is in charge of variant groups in the US. I The SIG meets on a regular base to assess the peril presented by SARS- CoV- 2 variations circulating in the United States and across the world, as well as to offer suggestions on variant categorization. The SIG decided to identify the Omicron interpretation as a Variant of Concern on November 30, 2021.( VOC). This decision is grounded on a number of factors, including the discovery of Omicron cases in multiple countries, including among those with no trip history, transmission and relief of Delta as the predominant variant in South Africa, the number and locales of negotiations in the shaft protein, and available data for other variants with smaller negotiations in the shaft protein, indicating a reduction in neutralization by vaccine and convalescent sera. The United States has codified two variations as VOCs Omicron and Delta. Two vindicated cases of the Omicron strain have been set up in the United States as of December 2, 2021, and other probable Omicron cases are being examined.

Statement of the problem

Covid- 19’s severe and murderous nature has needed a number of limitations and precautionary measures to limit its spread over the world, since the contagion has the power to kill a person within seven days of contact( HDRS, 2020). still, in response to the emergence of the omicron interpretation in Nigeria, the United Kingdom government has decided to put Nigeria on the red list in order to help the variant’s spread. likewise, the UK government cites several reasons for red listing a country, including the quality of its testing structures, including checking for variants, the number of cases linked by those systems, whether people have been catching new variants there or the cases have come from away, and whether it has exported cases of new variants to other countries, including the UK( Akanni, 2020). The UK government, on the other hand, indicated that their study indicates a significant signal of Omicron in Nigeria, that multitudinous cases in the UK have been related to trip from Nigeria, and that Nigeria has substantial trip liaison with South Africa, where Omicron was firstly diagnosed( Esther, 2012). Since a consequence, the necessity to red list Nigeria has sparked outrage among Nigerians at home and abroad, as it would affect in a restriction on breakouts from Nigeria, a loss of profit for airline drivers, and the incapability of Nigerians in the UK to fly down for the leaves, among other effects. Hence the need to look into Recrimination of Omicron Variant “ Red- Listing ” of Nigeria by UK government on Nigeria citizens.

Ideal Of The Study

The primary ideal of the study is as follows

1. To estimate public perception on what the omicron variant contagion is each about.

2. To estimate public perception on how red table of Nigeria will affect the profit of airline drivers in Nigeria.

3. To find out public perception on how the red table will affect Nigerians in diaspora who would like to travel for the leaves.

4. To examine public perception on how to cover oneself from the Omicron variant contagion.

Exploration Questions

The following questions have been prepared for the study

1. What’s the public perception on what the omicron variant contagion is each about?

2. What’s the public perception on how red table of Nigeria will affect the profit of airline drivers in Nigeria?

3. What’s the public perception on how the red table will affect Nigerians in diaspora who would like to travel for the leaves?

4. What’s the public perception on how to cover oneself from the Omicron variant contagion?

Significance of the study

This study focuses on Recrimination of Omicron Variant “ Red- Listing ” of Nigeria by UK government on Nigeria citizens( Case study of public perception). Hence the study will be significant to the ministry of health as it’ll expose them to the need to educate the crowd on forestallment way to use in other not to communicate the contagion

The study will be of benefit to the academic community as it’ll contribute to the being literature

Compass Of The Study

This study will estimate public perception on what the omicron variant contagion is each about. The study will also estimate public perception on how red table of Nigeria will affect the profit of airline drivers in Nigeria. likewise, the study will find out public perception on how the red table will affect Nigerians in diaspora who would like to travel for the leaves. Incipiently, the study will examine public perception on how to cover oneself from the Omicron variant contagion. Hence the study will be demarcated to occupant of Lagos state.

Limitation of the study

This study was constrained by a number of factors which are as follows

just like any other exploration, ranging from attainability of demanded accurate accoutrements on the content under study, incapability to get data

Financial constraint, was faced by the experimenter, in getting applicable accoutrements and in printing and collation of questionnaires

Time factor time factor disguise another constraint since having to shuttle between jotting of the exploration and also engaging in other academic work making it uneasy for the experimenter

Description Of Terms

Omicron variant The Omicron variant is a variant of SARS- CoV- 2, the contagion that causes COVID- 19. It was first reported to the World Health Organization from South Africa on 24 November 2021. On 26 November 2021, the WHO designated it as a variant of concern and named it after omicron, the fifteenth letter in the Greek ABC

Red listing a list of people or effects that are banned