Can you provide some proofs to back up this statement, as @gentleshaid suggested. What I have read tends to say that there are big differences (and they are thus different diseases). See for instance this scientific article.
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Well most of my friends that hardly fall sick have been falling sick and some of the symptoms include runny nose, itchy throat, and even when they take malaria medicine, they don't recover as quickly as they would usually do but I guess that the problem is that there are no active tests going on especially in my state so most people just assume that it is malaria.
It is also important to note that most Nigerians self medicate so they never actually take tests.
I am not sure that I have followed what you meant initially.
I had the impression you were saying that malaria and COVID were the same thing. This statement seems incorrect to me. They have common points in terms of symptoms, but they are two different diseases. On the contrary, I now have the impression you discuss problems inherent to Nigeria in getting the right diagnosis (which is different). Do you mind clarifying? Thanks in advance.
Oh I wasn't saying that they were the same, I was saying that here most people might have covid but think it's malaria because most people never go for tests and they don't even know symptoms that are specific to covid.
Aaaah I see. Now I understand. Then it is somehow a failure of the healthcare system. Sorry for the confusion.
It's alright, minus it being a failure in the health care system, most Nigerian don't believe that covid is real because of the corruption that runs deep.
However, facts can be checked (it is just a matter of taking the effort of doing so :) ).
Yeah, this is true.