Assessment of the Measures in Place to Forestall Aviation Aided Spread of Pandemic in Nigeria

M.S. Stephens¹ , I. Njoku² , O.S. Adebimpe³

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.10 , Issue.1 , pp.1-6, Mar-2022

Online published on Mar 31, 2022

Copyright © M.S. Stephens, I. Njoku, O.S. Adebimpe . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The study assessed the measures that have been put in place by the aviation industry of Nigeria to forestall future occurrence of the outbreak of infectious diseases; and evaluate the adequacy of these measures to forestall future outbreaks and spread. The research work majors on the measures in place at Murtala Muhammed International Airport before 2020 outbreak and how adequate those measures are in forestalling future outbreaks and spread of infectious diseases. The research employed the use of primary data obtained from the administration of a well-structured questionnaires. The data collected were analyzed using Likert scale (5 scales). The study shows that, the measures in place are neither adequate or inadequate to curtail future outbreaks of any infectious diseases in Nigeria. This is shown in Table 4.2, which indicates that 0.99% of passengers chose undecided, 16.8% Strongly Agreed, 32.7% went with Agreed, 35.6% Disagreed while 13.9% went for Strongly Disagreed. We then observed from the Likert scale table there was aggregate of 3 (Agrees 49.5%, Disagree 49.5%).

Key-Words / Index Term :
Influenza, Transmission, Geographical Information System, World Health Organization

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