Popular comedian, Owen Gee has come out to say that schools should not open amid the coronavirus pandemic. He recently revealed this in an interview with Punch, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to him, his wife and his first son recently got infected with covid while looking after his second son who got diagnosed with the viral disease when he got back from school.
He added that the government should not expose innocent kids amid the outbreak all in the name of learning.
His words, “I have two kids, one is in primary while the other is in secondary school. Last term, one of my kids came home ill and was sick for a while. We kept treating him for malaria but to no avail. We treated him for two weeks till he lost his senses of smell and taste. He had body aches and was excessively weak. It was at that point we discovered he had contracted COVID-19. He was about nine years old at the time.
My wife and I started taking care of him because we could not abandon him, he is our son. In the process of taking care of him, my wife and I also contracted the virus. It was a war for us, later on, his elder brother contracted the virus.”
“I couldn’t be separated from my family because going to an isolation centre will mean separating us. The psychological damage alone was something else.”
“We became a family of four with COVID. We had it at different times so for over a month, we battled with the deadly ailment. It cost a fortune aside the fact that I also got help from well-meaning friends who had contracted it. Some friends also helped in terms of medication and support.”
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