Image, courtesy of: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS Below (reference) is an article by Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and Nigeria Institute for Medical Research (NIMR). The findings are mind bugling as to how many people most likely have contracted SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in Nigeria. A whopping 23% in Lagos and Enugu States, 19% in Nassarawa State, and 9% in Gombe State based on antibody test done on random candidates. This implies an estimated 4,036,960 people in Lagos State; 751,602 in Enugu State; 429,957 in Nassarawa State and 212,853 in Gombe State have contracted COVID-19 as of September 2020 before the highly contagious variant from South Africa and the UK started spreading in December 2020. That is about 5.4 million people infected with coronavirus in four states in Nigeria. If we extrapolate this to 36 states, that is approximately 48.6 million Nigerians with COVID-19 infection as of September 2020, 30 times more than the curre