The News Scroll 05 May 2021
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Merck Foundation Partner With Africa Reproductive Care Society (ARCS) to Build Fertility Care Capacity and Advocacy in Africa Outlook May 05, 2021 11:20 IST Merck Foundation Partner With Africa Reproductive Care Society (ARCS) to Build Fertility Care Capacity and Advocacy in Africa outlookindia.com 1970-01-01T05:30:00+0530
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Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KgaA, announced their partnership with Africa Reproductive Care society (ARCS) based in Lagos, Nigeria to build fertility and reproductive tube care capacity, build advocacy to break the stigma of infertility, and raise awareness about infertility prevention and male infertilit
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The Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has warned that COVID-19 vaccines do not prevent infection but instead stop the virus from killing the patient.
This is even as it raised the alarm of a possible third wave of the pandemic if the citizenry do not religiously adhere to non-pharmacological measures such as wearing of facemasks, physical distancing and regular washing of hands.
At a media roundtable themed “Journalism, Pandemic, and Vaccines: Where do we go from here?” yesterday in Lagos, NAS President, Prof. Ekanem Braide, and Chairman, Ministerial Expert Advisory Committee on COVID-19, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, urged Nigerians to take the jabs, as they were safe and efficacious.
COVID-19 third wave imminent in Nigeria, expert warns
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A professor of virology, Oyewale Tomori, on Tuesday said the third wave of COVID-19 is imminent in Nigeria except the people change their attitude.
The expert, while speaking on the topic, ‘COVID-19 vaccines: To take or not to take,’ at the media round table organised by the Nigerian Academy of Science, said the testing rate of the country was not good enough.
He said, “According to the figures we have as of April 19, we’ve already passed the 1.8 million samples tested but there is nothing to be proud about that in a country of about 200 million people.