Zaina Ahmed,
Minister of Finance, has disclosed that Nigeria will go into recession if the
Coronavirus pandemic persists longer than six months.
Ahmed said this on
Friday when she appeared on Channels TV.
Ahmed said, “We are
being hopeful that this COVID-19 pandemic will be limited in time.
“If it is an average
of three months, we should be able to close the year with positive growth. But
if it goes longer than six months, Nigeria will go into recession.”
Nigeria in a space
of few hours recorded increase in number of positive cases of COVID-19
patients.
A total of 81 as at
Friday night was confirmed by the National Center for Disease Control, NCDC
The global pandemic
which broke out in Wuhan in December,2019 has killed over 25,000 people.
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