By Owei Lakemfa
THE victims of the coronavirus, COVID-19,
are not only those who contracted it. Not
just those who lay helpless in hospitals,
homes and isolation centres hoping to
survive or waiting for death. They are not
only the doctors and nurses, pharmacists
and technologists, radiographers and
medical workers who in a universal war of
life or death, led humanity while the
generals hide behind their white overalls.
The victims are not just the babies
delivered into the world only to be caught
by the virus.
They are not just the innocent who flocked
to religious centres believing in clerics –
overfed with tithes, offerings, contributions
and gifts – who assured the faithful that as
God’s children, they will not catch the virus,
nor would the virus dare catch them