The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has warned that Nigeria will never be the world-class nation it is aspiring to be and will be neglecting the future if it neglects research.
Right from the outset of the pandemic in 2019, we always knew that there is a possibility of the COVID-19 virus, (which is a SARS-CoV-2 virus), mutating or having different variants. But what we didn’t know was how these variants will behave. From then till now I think we must have had several variants; some dominant in the sense that they become the agents of transmission, and responsible for a big burden of new transmissions, and some just fizzle out. So the Delta variant is arranged in such a way that it easily attaches to the membranes and easily multiplies. It is more infective, and can transmit from one person to the other quickly.