Introduction

Man, as a social being interacts with one another on daily basis and depends on communication for his continual existence and survival. Even in business organizations, people interact with each other because human beings make up part of the organization [1]. Other resources of the business cannot be properly coordinated without effective communication between and among personnel of the organization [1]. Hence, communication or interaction and othersocial activitieslike exercising (walk out), working,travelling, business operations have become indispensable in man’s daily activities. Communication is an indispensable component in human lives and existence and no society has been known to exist without it. However, the presence of any outbreak or pandemic poses a threat to human existence and inversely affects his social live, interactions and relationships. Such pandemic is the novel corona virus popularly known as COVID-19.

Coronavirus pandemic is one of the recent pandemic outbreaks that hasimpacted the way in which people used to live. COVID-19 belongs to the family of viruses that cause such sicknesses as cold, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), with symptoms such as sore throat, cough, runny nose, fever, tiredness, body aches and difficulty breathing, manifesting between 2 to 14 days after one is exposed to it [2].

COVID-19 which was discovered in China is genetically closely related to the SARS-CoV-1 virus which caused thousands of deaths in the year 2002 [3]. Shereen et al. [4] opined that COVID-19 is a highly transmittable and pathogenic viral disease that is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2). The corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak first occurred in Wuhan city of China in December, 2019. Initially it was generally believed to be a disease peculiar to Chinese but the pandemic started spreading swiftly from person to person and subsequently to different parts of the world [5].

Sequel to the rapid spread of the virus in China, the Chinese authority on January 7, 2020 declared the isolation of the virus [6]. Subsequently, the World Health Organization on January 12, 2020 named the virus COVID-19 and by February 12, 2020, a total of 43,103 COVID-19 confirmed cases and 1,018 deaths had been reported by the organization [2]. This being the case, the World health Organization on the 11th of March 2020 declared corona virus outbreak a global pandemic based on the increased rate at which the virus spread in different parts of the world, thus, causing global health threat [2]. Corona virusis now known asthe severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

Nigeria was not left out from the COVID-19 pandemic, as the country recorded its first case of COVID-19 on the 27th of February, 2020 from a male foreigner who came to Nigeria through Lagos State international airport. This indexed case was male foreigner from Milan, Italy (the fourth country with high incidence of 371 cases as at February, 2020) who works with the multinational, Lafarge Cement Company at Ogun State and came for a meeting atthe company’sfactory at EwekoroOgun which is a neighbouring State to Lagos State. It wasthere thatthe foreigner exhibited some symptoms of sickness and was taken to Lafarge’s medical centre in Ewekoro for testing and was confirmed COVID-19 positive (Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, 2020). On the 9th of March 2020, the second case of the virus wasreported in Ewekoro, Ogun State, and a Nigerian who had contact with the Italian citizen [7]. Thereafter, more and increased cases were discovered on daily basis in different parts of the country increased date rates that necessitated remedial strategy by government.