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Published 14 March 2021
A new study has revealed that the Ebola virus can be found in the semen of survivors, six months after infection.
The researchers also found that longer persistence of the virus was significantly associated with severe acute EVD and older age.
The study, published in an open-access peer-reviewed journal, PLOS Medicine, was titled ‘Persistence of Ebola virus in semen among Ebola virus disease survivors in Sierra Leone: A cohort study of frequency, duration, and risk factors.’
The study was led by A. E. Thorson of the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organisation.
Ekiti, Bauchi, Kano deploy 1,500 teams to administer COVID-19 vaccine
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Published 14 March 2021
About 1,500 teams of health workers will be deployed by Ekiti, Bauchi and Kano state governments in different parts of the states to administer doses of COVID-19 vaccine jabs,
Sunday PUNCH has learnt.
Our correspondents gathered that 78 teams would be moblised in Ekiti, 872 in Bauchi while a team of health workers would be deployed across each of the 509 designated centres in Kano.
The Executive Chairman, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Rilwan Mohammed, said the state Governor, Bala Mohammed, had directed that the administration of the AstraZeneca vaccine be commenced immediately.
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Published 14 March 2021
Actress, Maryam Charles, has said that fans should not feel entitled to giveaways from celebrities. In an interview with
Sunday Scoop, she said, “It is the fact that some of these fans demand for giveaways that irks me. We are all human beings. Like I mentioned recently on Facebook, some people’s full-time work is to harass celebrities for just N2,000. It makes no sense to me. People should understand that celebrities also have problems.
“My advice to other celebs is to help who they can and in situations where they cannot help, they should move on. They should not let anybody pressure them unnecessarily.”
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Operatives of the Delta State Police Command have uncovered the decomposing bodies of two siblings found inside an abandoned car parked near the residence of the vehicle’s owner.
The acting Police Public Relations Officer for the command, DSP Edafe Bright, in a statement on Saturday, identified the two corpses as one Kelvin Izakpa, 10, and Fega Izakpa, seven, both children of the late Meshach Izakpa.
They reportedly lived with their mother before their disappearance.
According to the police spokesman, the Abraka Police Station received a distress call around 3pm on Friday that two decomposing corpses of children were sighted in a Honda Rover car.