“There is deliberate or let me say direct mischief on the part of the group parading the false information about the COVID 19 vaccine.
“To me, it is not surprising, it usually happens when vaccines are developed. You remember the polio vaccine, people said a lot of things, they used politicians and religious people to try to dissuade people from submitting their children for the vaccine but at the end of the day, we had to engage thought leaders in the communities.
“In the case of the COVID 19 vaccine, it will be helpful to engage religious leaders” the professor said.
Prof. Olaleye who led a team of scientists and researchers to isolate the variance strain of AIDS virus in Nigeria in 2003 maintained that it is unlikely that the complex and communal efforts used to develop vaccines could be compromised, saying those who are promoting the falsehood about the COVID 19 vaccine are deliberately causing mischief and creating fear in the population.