This is so sad!
Nigerian pathologist, Olumide Okunuga, has died of coronavirus.
The 63-year-old doctor who lived in Italy, contracted the disease during a visit to Canada.
Olumide Okunuga is the second Nigerian doctor to die of the virus following the death of the young Nigerian doctor in his 30s who died in the United Kingdom Last week.
Okunuga’s death was made known by the minister of state for health,
Adeleke Mamora, while addressing journalists in Abuja on Monday as he gave update on the COVID-19 situation in the country.
He said;
“We must be conscious of not being complacent, the price to pay for complacency is huge. I have heard people say that the black man’s gene is resistant and so COVID-19 is not for us,” he said.
“Don’t forget, some black men even from Africa, even from Nigeria have died, unfortunately. We heard the story of one doctor
