Views: Visits 14 By Jimoh Babatunde A virologist at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Prof. David Olaleye has challenged anyone with proof of the COVID-19 vaccines to produce them and allow the Nigerian scientific community to review such evidence. The renowned virologist, known for his groundbreaking work on HIV/AIDS said the depopulation claims about the COVID vaccines is nothing but mischief aimed to discourage the people from benefiting from science. “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.
Experts worry, alert Nigerians to dangers of fake COVID-19 vaccines The Punch
Published 18 April 2021
It all started like a play. But over a year after, the world has yet to fully recover from Covid-19 pandemic destruction. When the coronavirus broke out in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China at the end of 2019, no one could have predicted what was to come.
But by January 2020, as the coronavirus spread its wings from China across international borders, it started to gain international attention, which, of course, has yet to wane.
By the end of January 2020, China took unprecedented lockdown measures affecting its over a billion people. But that measure failed to contain the virus. Instead, by February 2020, coronavirus had spread to Europe and North America. Countries on these continents also quickly placed lockdowns.
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A consultant public health physician/epidemiologist and a member of the Lagos State COVID-19 Response Team, Professor Akin Osibogun, says that the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)’s emergency approval of Oxford, the AstraZeneca vaccine is a right step to prevent individuals from developing severe illness and will cut Nigeria’s spending on required intensive care unit services.
Professor Osibogun, who declared that this now means the vaccine can be legally imported into the country and administered to Nigerians, however, said NAFDAC will need to continue to monitor the vaccine’s safety and efficacy.
The expert, who stated that he supports the use of the vaccine in Nigeria said although a vaccinated person can still transmit COVID-19, vaccinated people are not likely to ever get the severe illness.