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Since the outbreak of the coronavirus, advances in science and technology have been stretched to the limits and even called into question. The COVID-19 has not only killed thousands of persons daily but cases of infection have also been growing in leaps and bounds. Starting in China in December 2019, the novel coronavirus pandemic (which has caused COVID-19) has spread to several countries of the world with the United States as the worst hit.
The pandemic has elicited quite a lot of responses from civil society groups, corporate organisations and world leaders on how to manage the scourge. The unprecedented health security threat has undermined national and global economic activities following
the shutdown of businesses, airlines and the stay-at-home orders by some governments. In addition to these responses, it is pertinent to begin to explore how the novel coronavirus can exacerbate local conflict dynamics in weak states where the consequences of the pandemic are likely to assume a calamitous scale.
