Abstract
This article chronicles the present situation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) on individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in Nigeria. A systematic search was conducted on three bibliographic databases: MEDLINE Complete, Web of Science and Scopus, and supplemented with grey literature searches to assess studies on the effect of COVID‐19 on these individuals in Nigeria with data on this group from December 2019 to July 2020. There were no studies found concerning individuals with IDD in Nigeria. This article argues for an urgent call to action by Nigerian policymakers to make data available to help understand the impact of COVID‐19 and to develop and implement appropriate interventions. This article provides steps to support and care for these individuals in Nigeria. Forecasting models are recommended which offer better approaches in yielding accurate predictions and provide valuable decisions in the event of future threats and infectious disease outbreak in Nigeria.
Highlights
This article argues for an urgent call to action by Nigerian policymakers to make data available to help understand the impact of COVID-19 and to develop and implement appropriate interventions
Like other countries under the COVID-19 crisis, the section summarizes the rationale for focusing on Nigeria; the third lockdown restrictions in Nigeria were not applicable to healthcare prosection outlines the methods of study; the fourth section discusses fessionals, journalists, pharmacies, supermarkets and shops selling grothe main findings, and the fifth section provides the conclusion and ceries, and some government agencies (Mbah, 2020)
It is acknowledged that COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, and the the event of future pandemics, robust techniques like forecasting number of epidemiological cases in Nigeria is not high compared to models could be used to generate better strategies and provide valusome developed countries like China, Spain, the USA, the UK, Italy, able decisions (Poletto et al, 2020; Shinde et al, 2020) such as in and France
Summary
This article chronicles the present situation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Studies have when an Italian citizen entered the country on the February 25, 2020, focused on the economic and health impacts of the disease and tested positive to the virus Like other countries under the COVID-19 crisis, the section summarizes the rationale for focusing on Nigeria; the third lockdown restrictions in Nigeria were not applicable to healthcare prosection outlines the methods of study; the fourth section discusses fessionals, journalists, pharmacies, supermarkets and shops selling grothe main findings, and the fifth section provides the conclusion and ceries, and some government agencies (Mbah, 2020). The measures was constrained, because of public dissatisfaction with the insufficient provision of basic needs by the government, such as financial support, for those that depended on daily income
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