id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-338481-jox35yg1 Tijjani, Salman Jidda Is Nigeria prepared and ready to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in its conflict-affected northeastern states? 2020-05-27 .txt text/plain 1870 77 40 Although the case fatality rate is very low as at 2nd of April [3] , there are public health concerns that the community transmissions of COVID-19 in Nigeria may exponentially rise in the coming weeks, and wreak havoc to nearly seven million people in dare need of humanitarian assistance across the conflict-affected Northeastern part of Nigeria [4] [5] [6] , which has since seen its first case of COVID-19 reported in Bauchi state on the 24th of March, 2020 [2] . The second factor which is anticipated to make COVID-19 response very challenging in this vulnerable population is the high prevalence of poverty, double burden of endemic infectious, and noncommunicable diseases [10] which has been on the increase since the emergence of the Boko Haram insurgency that has devastated the Northeastern part of Nigeria [7] . ./cache/cord-338481-jox35yg1.txt ./txt/cord-338481-jox35yg1.txt